Online forms can be frustrating. I’m sure just about everyone’s had the experience of filing out a long, elaborate form only to lose all your information three quarters of the way through. And while many online forms have gotten better, there are still some pretty bad ones out there. Here are some of the biggest …
Are you working. or are you playing office? There are an awful lot of office workers out there who “play office”, like a little kid imitating her parents. This is a subtle and pernicious form of what Steven Pressfield calls “resistance”. What makes it so terrible is that, unlike checking Facebook or chatting with coworkers, …
There is no finer hell than a waiting room. In fact, if there is such a thing as Hell, it’s probably just the waiting room outside the Pearly Gates. You sit there waiting for St. Peter to call your name, reading the same outdated copy of Reader’s Digest for all eternity. That idea alone is …
The subtle foe of creativity Drowns us in banality. Endless meetings and pointless emails. Mindless procedures and operations. A delicate idea that barely exists Can be crushed with great ease. Bureaucracy kills all innovation, Destroys that which might have been. What ideas have died in utero? What inventions have never come to be? Do these …
There’s a telling scene in the movie Office Space, where the boss chews Peter Gibbons out for not put the proper coversheet on his TPS report. A moment later, a second boss comes along and reprimands him for the same reason. Then another boss calls on the phone to remind him of his mistake. By …
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