Recently, in one of the meetings at work, a colleague was very keen to convey that I had not done much of the task I had been set. Well, it was not so much “you have not done it”, but more “there was no progress shown”. The two are different,…
Organisational management has come some ways, from top-down to side-ways to bottom-up. There is a missing magic wand where “talent management” (TM) has remained “talent spotting”, the management does not manage the talent. What TM does is shape the talents that are, or recruited, to align with organisatioal goals for…
I have studied and worked in societies where the populace expect major decisions taken and implemented by others. This might be described as the high torque group. I have also done so in high performance teams, make decisions to influence impacts across organisations, etc. Amidst all the permutations in decision…
Oh dear. The word agile is so fluid that, actually, it is a behavoural container to formalise lack of behavioural norms. That might be bad enough. When multiple managers apply agile-ness across different domains, operating different kinds of agile-ness, or some fully agile in its full anger, along with some…
I don’t need reminding or convincing that the problem is me, or lies with me. In one place of work, as I left the office, I walked pass a restaurant / cafe unit where I knew some of my colleagues, and my manager, were at. My manager had said that…
In the world of work, there is a degree of acceptance and / approval – by managers and / or colleagues or even third parties eg suppliers and external contractors. Ok, this may not apply to everyone. However, some readers will recognise such a “pressure” exists. This can be about…
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One of my former managers made an incorrect assumption of my approach to work. I had no agenda or plan to change his perspective, and it took about 2 years for him to come to greater understanding of who I am and my role. Credit to him that since then…
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Continuing from Monday. I am no longer holding on my previous job (probation). My approach is not to stew over things past. The opportunity that the HR rep spoke about, yup, that was truth, though it’s not “cast in stone” yet, in that the paperwork is not all complete. With…
Not sure what to make of it. OK, get straight to the point, the job that I was on probation for, today was the last day and the significant manager informed me, in a meeting of four including me, that I don’t fit this job. Perplexed, I paused, or rather,…
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