New Year is just around the corner, followed by a bit of a break for everyone as we take time to recharge for the oncoming New Year which who knows what is in store for us then. It’s generally around this time I start thinking about what I accomplished and what I want to start fresh on in the following year. No matter how much baggage, how many mistakes you have made, where you are…
No one should ever be part of a call that is delivered in this fashion. Your company should have all the breakers in place to ensure this never happens. Hopefully the last of these we ever hear of, but here’s our take on Remotely Prepared – https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/this-weeks-3-minute-mass-zoom-firing And here is one of many articles that references this debacle. All I can say, is something of this magnitude should never be phoned in, and this is what…
Apparently, we are currently in the midst of the Great Resignation where people are quitting their jobs in droves because they are fed up, exhausted, burnt out and ready to follow what matters to them most. I realize the word resignation is being used in the context of “resigning” one’s job and not in the context of “with great resignation”. The thing about the Great Resignation is that if all these people are quitting to…
The first time you did something, you messed it up. Probably the second, third, and fourth times. Then you figured it out and successively improved each and every time. This was easy when we were young because we didn’t care what people thought – we just did it. Does anyone care how many times you fell down when learning to walk? But now everyone watches, records and reviews and now we do for ourselves as well. …
I get this hunger that starts gnawing at me now and again to go and try something completely different. Go learn a new platform. Go figure out a new way to exercise. Try out a new planning tool. Pivot your approach to clients. Try a different writing style. It doesn’t always work out perfectly or go smoothly, but I always come out that much better for having put the time into learning something new and…