Posts tagged: improvement

Ever Considered Not Using an Office Chair at Work?

I’m get­ting old enough now that I actu­ally spend time think­ing about how to take bet­ter care of myself. One thing that’s been both­er­ing me lately has been my chair at the office. Sim­ply put, the one I use right now sucks, the one before it sucked worse, and the one before that was about […]

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »

New Year’s Resolutions are Intrinsically Flawed

Every Jan­u­ary 1, mil­lions of peo­ple make new year’s res­o­lu­tions.  They will do this, they will do that.  “I will go to the gym every day,” “I will quit smok­ing,” or “I will eat one hand­ful less junk food every day.”  I don’t make new year’s res­o­lu­tions any more.  They don’t work for me. I do, […]

Sunday January 3rd, 2010 in , , | Comments Off

Good Cookbooks Have Named Authors

I spend money on cook­books even though there are free recipes online, and free recipes in papers and mag­a­zines.  I spend money on cook­books with named authors even though the com­pi­la­tions by Best Cook­ing Ever Mag­a­zine are cheaper, and com­pi­la­tions titled Best Asian Food Ever are easy to find.  Why do I do this?  Because […]

Why don’t we do AARs at work on a regular basis?

AAR isn’t just a sound that your favorite pirate makes when he runs out of whisky.  It stands for After-Action Report, and it is what the busi­ness world calls “Lessons Learned.”  How­ever, the term lessons learned is some­times a bit too pre­sump­tu­ous — are the lessons really learned?  Bet­ter yet, are the lessons even really […]

Wednesday November 18th, 2009 in , , , , , | Comments Off

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