News and the New Power Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t gives you yet another instance of the challenges the establishment is facing in coping with the internet age’s unforeseeable consequences. Just for the sake of the fascinating analogy used, you should read…
Category: Work on the Wild Side
Weekly Learning: Race, Designer, Accessibility, and AI
Race Race is quite a topic, but you can’t really talk about diversity or inclusion without talking about racism, can you? Maybe the best entry book to know more about racism is White Fragility or How to Be an Antiracist, while the article How to See Race provides some critical insights in the way we…
Leadership or Org Culture?
Good employees politely walking away says more about leadership than about org culture. Bad employees happily walking away says more about leadership than about org culture. Org culture is overrated. Leadership is merely oversold. {END}
A Cultural Model of Taking Risks at Work
A Cultural Model of Taking Risks at Work There are at least three types of risks in work environment: social risks, operational risks, and outcome risks. The first concerns trust, credibility, and social role in groups; the second, the difficulty of approach/process; the third, doing tasks and its impact on outcome. We manage those three…
The Science of Scheduling Meetings (Or How to Ruin Other People’s Day)
Proposal Be flexible in cancelling meetings. Be inflexible in adding them at the last minute. Why Canceling meetings and adding meetings are not equal. Canceling a meeting is often non-disruptive. When it’s cancelled, we can always choose to do something else, such as continuing to do the work at hand, or even just read or…
The Best Quote on Bullshit
Bullshit is not the same thing as a lie. To lie, you need to have some respect for the truth. When you lie, you are trying to cover something up. Liars know they might be found out. They know that there is a truth, and that they are on the wrong side of it. Bullshit…
