Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is as simple as one word instead of another that can change everything. Do we manage or cultivate? Do we transfer or transplant? Do we tell or till? We could go on. Is the workplace a machine or a garden? Are our colleagues living, breathing humans or interchangeable cogs? Persons […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Organizing is pretty easy. Shuffle some squares and you have a company. Creating an organic system where persons can thrive is much more difficult. The results, however, are amazing. I made up the word “organi-mizing.” At least I think I did. I found some pages on Pinterest that had the word. So […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We are talking about this because this is what we are talking about now. The preacher—the person on TED talks, the motivational speaker, the person next to you at the bar— preaches on the topics that we talk about in the parking lot, the hall ways, the grocery store, etc. At work, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Yes, the technology is here to watch everyone all the time, but do those who have it also have the ability to use it? Each day I see yet another example of the reach of technology. Facial recognition seems to be the most recent target of the they-are-watching-us crowd. Little cameras are […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Things, even food, are much easier to carry than people. What does that say about us? Uber and others have discovered that it is far more profitable to carry meals than to carry the consumers of meals. People can be such a nuisance. We want the car to have the right odor, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips All things don’t happen automatically by automaton. Some special person does the work. Someone has to type the words Someone has to stand in front of the classroom Someone has to carry champagne to the table Someone has to crack the eggs As much as we wish it to be different in […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Simple desires for the workplace. Years ago, a wise old man once told me, “The workplace should be pleasant and profitable.” He worked in a commercial business. No profits, no business, no jobs. Profits were necessary. Also necessary, in his experience, was that the workplace be pleasant. If it wasn’t pleasant, people […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Times change, but not all things. We still want to be friends with the rich. I guess things don’t change much with us through the centuries. We want to be friends with the rich. See, e.g., all the places that want Amazon to come and sit for a while. The richest person […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Please hire some editors in your business. They are need in many more ways than most persons expect. This is a post about editors—the human variety who read and change what others write. First, we have editors who collect writings from a variety of persons and combine them into one writing. Their […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some persons use items to abuse others. This has been occurring since, well since a long time. Is there an answer? I found this to be an interesting article on tech’s guilt in how some persons abuse other persons. Should all Microsoft employees feel guilty because the name-your-worst-bad-person uses Word and Outlook? […]

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