The (Im)Perfect Manager

This was the professional blog I kept for two years. I am currently going over the entries to create a book, so the blog is on hiatus for th...

Some of you are wondering what Kaizen Camp is. It's not a yoga retreat or a new Ben and Jerry's flavor. It's a place where a bu...

You get another one. In my professional life, I was out of work from mid March through the end of April (1.5 months). It was, for lack of ...

...because it's always possible you'll get a worse job some day. On the bright side, as much as you learn from regular old failures,...

I've written in previous posts about the risks that you undertake when you become a manager. I caution caution, as it were, at every tur...

In real life--ie, not your job--you often explain why you're doing things as part of informing people that you are doing things. For exa...

In everything we do, we need to know our boundaries and what we're capable of. You might be able to lift a car off your screaming child,...