Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Hard-nosed self-improvement books that preach goals, time management and positive attitudes are invaluable. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore. But they are not always slow.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For chronic procrastination, this is not an issue of time management. You can’t manage time. You manage yourself,” says Ferrari. To better manage yourself, you need to know why it is you’re not completing what you’ve started in the first place. It’s the reverse of the old adage, “out of sight, out of mind.”

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Job required strong skills in time management, dispute resolution, communication, accounting, procurement, and cost reduction. One team member suggested we decorate for holidays to increase the “lived-in” look of our cubicle pod. Feb 2005 – May 2015. Scarecrows?

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The woman who sits near me, with an empty cubicle in between us, bought tons of soda and junk food from Costco and sold it during the challenge, with the proceeds going to the charity. She kept the merchandise in the empty cubicle between us. Most teams raised money via raffles or by selling stuff.

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Workplace Psychology

AUGUST 22, 2015

The reality, however, is that it requires a great deal of structure, time management and commitment, as well as an understanding of telecommuting’s disadvantages on the part of the person telecommuting so that s/he can get work done. We have these grand illusions about working in our pajamas and wearing house slippers while we work.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I almost knock people down every time I’m walking around the office. I work in a large office that was converted from a warehouse — we have many areas of cubicles. It just happened again, I was walking to and from the restroom and almost barreled into two people coming out their doors, two different times.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 1, 2019

I manage a difficult volunteer who’s also a friend. I manage a team of five, all volunteers and all at varying degrees of experience when it comes to professional communication, time management, and problem solving. I work for a nonprofit organization. One volunteer in particular has trouble with follow-through.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There was a secretary in the department where I was temping who had to know everything, and she was desperate to find out what I had in the one drawer I kept locked in my cubicle (spoiler alert – I kept my shoes there and changed into them when I had to dress for a bad weather commute). The unionization help. The locked drawer.

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