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On Shirley Sherrod… Mr. Vilsack, What Were You Thinking? Where the Hell Was HR?
Somewhere southeast of Chattanooga my jaw undoubtedly dropped open as I listened on XM radio to the emerging details of the saga of Shirley Sherrod, who this week got the bum’s rush from her position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While driving on I-75 en route to the ATL, a route that Ms. Sherrod knows [...]
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Does every performance get a standing ovation?
A few weeks ago, I attended a performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, “Oklahoma!”, performed by a professional touring company, at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. It wasn’t West End (Britain’s Broadway), but it was close. Very close. At the end of the show, the audience showed its intense appreciation for the outstanding performance [...]
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Contented Cows on Real Recognition Radio
When: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time What: Real Recognition Radio with Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will feature Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden, talking about how good leaders get people to put more OOMPH! into their work. Roy Saunderson, founder of Recognition Management Institute and S. Max Brown host Real Recognition Radio [...]
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Freeze! Let’s Not Get Stupid About Personal Use of E-Devices
In what may ultimately prove a landmark decision on workplace privacy, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that government workers have no right to privacy when using employer-owned communications devices. The case stemmed from a suit brought by an Ontario, CA police officer whose extremely personal text messages (not all of which were directed [...]
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A Better Way to Handle a Mistake
In an age when the slightest whiff of a miscue brings incessant howls of vitriol from anyone with access to a phone, microphone or keyboard, the handling of the Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga fiasco in last night’s Indians v Tigers game stands as a refreshing reminder of how mistakes can be handled when adults are [...]
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Everybody needs a safe zone
While I’ve visited lots of places prone to seismic activity, I’ve never actually experienced an earthquake. Not even a tremor. I’m not complaining. And only when I think about things like January’s horrific quake in Haiti, or my upcoming trip to San Francisco do I even give earthquakes much thought. And so on my recent trip [...]
Continue ReadingThey’re Not Dead Yet
Janey Cutler, an 80-year-old great-grandmother from Wishaw, Scotland, is getting nearly as much press in the U.K. as the new Prime Minister, David Cameron, after her astonishing performance earlier this month on “Britain’s Got Talent”. The comparison to fellow Scotswoman Susan Boyle, last year’s phenom from the show, is inevitable, if not entirely spot-on. Still, [...]
Continue ReadingShould You Just Turn the Damned Thing Off?
As a sign of just how co-mingled our private and business lives have become, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case regarding the privacy (or lack thereof) of personal text messages transmitted by a California police officer over a device owned by his employer, the City of Ontario. According to an article in [...]
Continue ReadingWorkplace Tradition
Tonight I will do something I haven’t done in more than 25 years: perform in a stage musical. It’s opening night of my son’s high school production of “Fiddler on the Roof”, the story of a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia. My son has been honored with the lead role of Tevye, a dairyman, who [...]
Continue ReadingWorkplace Trends Revisited
This week I was going through old stuff I had saved on my computer (somebody told me I should do that in the spring, and, at long last, it looks like spring may have finally come to Florida.) One of the more interesting finds was a list of the “Top Ten Workplace Trends of 2006″, [...]
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- On Shirley Sherrod… Mr. Vilsack, What Were You Thinking? Where the Hell Was HR?
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Does every performance get a standing ovation?
- Contented Cows on Real Recognition Radio
- Freeze! Let’s Not Get Stupid About Personal Use of E-Devices
- A Better Way to Handle a Mistake
- Everybody needs a safe zone
- They’re Not Dead Yet
- Should You Just Turn the Damned Thing Off?
- Workplace Tradition
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Stop Being Ordinary!
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