The Movie We All Need to See
Star Wars by Wes Anderson – The Galactic Menagerie
Fear of Missing Out
Are you feeling down about not being invited to that important work meeting? How could they have left you off the invite list? Who made that decision? Was it Derek? Damn you, Derek! I never liked you anyway. Of course, you could return to that stack of work already waiting for you. You could…
“Ode To Those First 15 Minutes After The Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith
“Ode To Those First 15 Minutes After The Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith Praise the couch that welcomes you back into its embrace, as it does every night around this time. Praise the loose cereal that crunches beneath your weight – the whole-grain golden dust that now shimmers on the backside of your…
If You Give a Salesperson a Snow Cone
If you give a Salesperson a snow cone, they’ll want another. And another. The other Salespeople will gather around and shout words of praise to that Salesperson, like “You killed it!” “You crushed it” and “Yahtzee!” but they’ll be harboring jealousy. They’ll believe that if given a patch with more significant snow cone potential,…
Why Your End Users Are at their (Whit’s) End
They arrive at work, a cup of coffee in hand, and try to log into their authentication screen (navigating some bot-generated hoops) to get started. Perhaps they forgot their password. Once through the authentication matrix, they hop on a Zoom call. In that call, they try to decipher what is not being said. Or…
If You Give an Exec an Eclair
If you give an exec an eclair, he’ll probably complain that you should have brought it to him earlier. That’s, of course, if he doesn’t just throw it in the trash. If he doesn’t throw it in the trash, he’ll shout, “This isn’t an eclair; this is a donut!!” and then reluctantly take a…
The Incomprehensibility of Sense-Making
This is a post about nothing…and everything. And all else in between. This post is about ‘Posturing’ and the gas that fills the air that makes it all possible. The oxygen that feeds it and the carbon molecules that it exudes. It’s a post about life and death and sasquatches. But to get into…
Improv at Work
I really can’t stand team-building exercises. I always feel like it’s forced fun. And I’ve been through so many team activities from pasta making to ax throwing to go-kart racing; I feel like I have done it all. Are our teams any closer because of them? I have no idea. So when I heard…