productivity
Only Have Time for Meetings
Managers are experts at attending meetings. There always seems to be time to attend them, but never time to complete the action items assigned during prior meetings. Wouldn’t it be better to skip out on the meeting, complete the assignment and have the deliverable in the organizer’s inbox before the meeting ends? For more, click here.
The Levity Effect
I just listened to a podcast with Adrian Gostick over at the Cranky Middle Manager. It’s about his book, The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up, which stresses the importance of having fun in the work place.
Management Crisis
Scott Adams sums up what he calls the “Dilbert Principle” as follows – “A retarded chimpanzee can drink a case of beer and still perform most management functions: avoiding decisions, attending meetings, babbling, demanding status reports, not reading status reports, handing out random rewards and punishments, scowling at people who believe the open door policy.” Click here for more.
You are the machine
Hmmm, machines as an extension of us are part of the new convergence theory. Convergence used to mean IT and Telecomms merging but that's old hat now. Today it means humans merging with machines - light sensitive chips being inserted into the back of the eye so that blind people can see, that sort of thing.
One of the proponents of the gradual merging of human and machine is Stephen Hawkins (yes, that Stephen Hawkins) and you can see how he would lean to this view, given his own use of machines to maintain mobility and to communicate.
