Three for the price of two in today’s entry in our on-going Crackers series, each of which gives us a moment to see the world of work from a less than usual angle. (For more useful, provocative or just plain life-enhancing snippets from around the web, see our full Crackers list.)
Why do we take ourselves so seriously?: Robbin from Brains on Fire, musing on the importance of creating trust in terms not just what it enables to achieve, but also in terms of the widening of the range of approaches it enables us to take. We suspect that, if were challenged to draw her, we’d let her see the picture. We hope we’d both laugh too – a good beginning (and further proof of the importance of phatic communication too)
Seniority ain’t what it used to be: over at Flipchart Fairytales, Rick shows us the expectations we’re encouraged to have can turn into frustrations. (Remember Alain de Botton’s lesson about what Seneca could still teach us?) Read it in terms in employee value propositions and their value in helping to retain talent and increase engagement, and it may lose it’s comic value – don’t say you weren’t warned.
Secret Diary of an Entrepreneur: The evils of self-improvement: Secret Diary keeps his or her identity close to his or her chest, but it seems we’re not the only one with some qualms about at least some of the self-help tomes on the market. If your most recent self-help guide hasn’t brought you an improved relationship with your line manager, or doesn’t cover being sensitive to the impact you make on others, you might want to read this. And maybe treat yourself to a self-review session. You know you’re worth it.
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