If we can learn from it, we can establish management approaches that will do better

Photo of Hurricane Frances taken by Astronaut Mike Fincke aboard the International Space Station as he flew 230 statute miles above the storm at about 9 a.m. CDT Friday, Aug. 27, 2004. (NASA)

Our current management system is broken.
It’s based [...]

Trusting people more is the simplest way to cut your workload and stress

Stop a moment. Think about all the extra work people load onto themselves because they don’t trust others: the checking, following through, doing things yourself because you don’t believe others will do them properly — or at all. If you took all that [...]

Conversation is becoming a lost art, replaced by endless one-way talk and organized “spin”

This is a revised and expanded version of a post I wrote back in 2005. If anything, the situation I describe seems to have become worse since then, so I believe that it is well worth repeating.
“To converse” means to share [...]