The Frustrating Part about Employees

Animal trainers have a saying “It’s never the animal’s fault” Because animals don’t speak, trainers need to find non-English methods to communicate what they want. If the animal doesn’t perform, they try to find a better way to communicate, they don’t blame the animal. It helps to take this approach with employees: if they don’t […]

In Praise of the Generalist

First, there are the things you know. This means you know the question and you know the answer.
Then there are things you know you don’t know. This means you know the question but you don’t know the answer.
And finally there are things you don’t know that you don’t know. This means you don’t even know […]

My Garbage Man Knows My Job

I got the blue plastic tub for free and turned it into a garbage can because it used to hold car wash soap so I didn’t want to use it for a compost bin and we turned the old garbage can into a compost bin. Do you know how much money they want for […]