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  • Your Kids in the Workplace

    1 Thought: The image above doesn’t seem that long ago for me, and in some ways it’s how we always see our children, but they do grow up, and they do it very quickly. I’m a father of 4, now adults, all in the workplace and thriving thank goodness. How do we prepare them for…

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  • 2 Winning Management Styles. Which One are You?

    1 Thought: Managing a group of people is a tough role and choices need to be made as to how you are going to lead. When working with any size team you have multiple personalities that respond to instruction, direction, and critiques in different ways and as a manager it’s your responsibility to lead them…

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  • Detachment

    1 Thought: Detachment: …separating from the larger group There’s the old saying that you can’t see the forest for the trees. This posts intent is to provide a few points that can assist you in recognizing when you are too close, recognizing the times that this consistently seems to occur, and lastly a few actionable…

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  • Skill Issues: Be of High Human Agency

    1 Thought: Looking back, or at current situations, have you ever run across a problem or issue that with the right amount of time or training you couldn’t have handled? The subject of this post is to address just that topic, and hopefully provide you a few actionable steps to manage future challenges…lord knows there…

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  • You’re Fired! What’s Your Replacement Going to Do First?

    1 Thought: Thinking about what your replacement might make their first course of business after you get fired is I feel a provocative way to suggest we look at our existing situation with a new lens. This could be a slightly painful procedure but one that’s worth having. I can say I have done this…

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  • Busy or Productive?

    1 Thought: Before getting to the topic at hand I’d like to thank everyone for the amazing support with this new blog. This post is #20 which, I learned puts www.afew-things.com in the top 1%, based on sticking with it. Appreciate the likes, the comments and especially those of you that have chosen to take…

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  • Tackling a Problem!

    1 Thought: The value of a good approach to solving a problem or challenge should not be overlooked. Problems are just that, problems, if you don’t slow down to understand their genesis, the impact it’s having currently, as well as its potential to grow. “A well defined problem is a problem half solved.” Adage attributed…

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  • So Much to Do; Too Much Time to Do It.

    1 Thought: Ever crammed for a test when you were a youth? Ever surprise yourself and end up with a better than expected grade when you did? Fairly certain the answer is yes; not always I’m sure but more often than expected. The Parkinson’s Law is something I find fascinating, not simply on the surface,…

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  • Nothin’ But NET!

    1 Thought: In the spirit of March Madness I was subliminally prompted to blog about something regarding a net I guess. The mind is a highly suggestible place. Net I feel is most simply defined by what is left after the work has been done. In basketball the practice has been put in, we’ve broken…

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  • You Have Wings, Use Them!

    1 Thought: The Turkish Cult Leader and Muslim Televangelist Harun Yahya was famously quoted saying…“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the Earth, then I ask myself the same question.” Despite his litany of terrible actions and now sentenced to over 8000 years in…

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