Differences in Management Styles?!

From Overheard in Office: “Sometimes there is a fine line between making people happy and getting them to shut up.”

Well, I wouldn’t know anything about that!

More Postcards…

Adrian Savage is at it again…check it out guys!

Samples:

4. Judging yourself is pointless. Judging others is halfwitted.
Whatever you achieve, someone else will always do better. However bad you are, others are worse. Since you can tell neither what’s best nor what’s worst, how can you place yourself correctly between them? Judging others is foolish since you cannot know all the facts, cannot create a reliable or objective scale, have no means of knowing whether your criteria match anyone else’s, and cannot have more than a limited and extremely partial view of the other person. Who cares about your opinion anyway?

7. Nasty people can’t make you mad. Nice people can’t make you happy.
Events or people are simply events or people. They can’t make you anything. You have to do that for yourself.  Whatever emotions arise in you as a result of external events, they’re powerless until you pick them up and decide to act on them.

Postcards From Over The Edge

Adrian Savage at the Coyote Blog usually has some really thoughtful & insightful writing. This post just exemplifies some of the good stuff he has to offer all of us business guys. Headlines below, but do read the full post here.

1. When you’ve reached enlightenment, your boss will still be a jerk

2.  There are no acceptable excuses for your bad behavior

3. Reality keeps coming at you. There’s no “off” switch

4. No one can insult you without your permission

5. You can always be yourself. You don’t need to prove it

6. Whatever changes you have in mind, begin with yourself

7. You won’t find meaning in your life by sitting and thinking about it

8. If you aren’t satisfied with your life, change it

9. Keep living until you die

10. There’s no such creature as a self-made person

The Straight-Talking Consultant

From Right Reality comes this gem:

Our name will confuse you, but you have to admit, the logo design is pretty cool. And we’re good at turning regular words into “e-words,” such as “e-consulting,” “e-business” or “e-sexual harassment.”

Warning: thin-skinned consultants do not click here.

Sounds like my kinda firm

They had me at the title: The Best Company to Work for in the World-Period.

Lovely! Esp. the part about the five-week vacations!  😉

But seriously, what i really loved was the fact that the CEO, Ann Price, justifies the “soft” policies with “hard” metrics like productivity & quality!