Robert asked this question in a comment on a previous post:
If I remember correctly Alexander, I read on your site here that one of your companies did not have any managers? Do you elaborate on that anywhere and if not could you? It seems that a lot of the problems … Continue Reading ››
As I wrote about previously, my post on motivation was translated into Chinese by Robin at lifebang.com. Even the diagram is in Chinese :o)
Robin then emailed me with the following question:
From my point of view, your thinking about the motivation is exactly what I am seeking in my … Continue Reading ››
On my post about liking vs. loving your job, Gabe asked an interesting question in the comments:
What do you do if you work at a place where, every time you try to “raise your game???, i.e. creating coding standards, improving functionality of commonly used systems, etc, you are … Continue Reading ››
Allengirl4 asked how you can spruce up an otherwise boring workplace and Mack came back with this question in the comments:
Sorry I just don't get this!! Work is work play is play. I cannot stand it when people "decorate" their cube etc. this is not kindergarden it is a … Continue Reading ››
Allengirl4 saw my post on 10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces, and wrote this in a comment:
What a beautiful, and inspiring environment to work in! However, some of us are not so fortunate - so I pose the question, If you live in a fairly regimented pod-based cubicle world, how … Continue Reading ››
Office Lady asks this question:
I have a question, can anyone help? On our contracts, we are supposed to work 39 hours a week (excluding lunch hours). So we all come in at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. But since we are supposed to work 39 hours only, we supposedly can … Continue Reading ››
Stan has some questions about the cult of overwork:
1) When/where did the cult of overwork start? Or has business/marketing/office work always been a race towards more & more hours?
2) Upper management at our company work 6+ days a week, have sacrificed their family lives for the past 15 … Continue Reading ›› The company I work at "went global". That means horrible things like many people fired and so. Thus, people are afraid to lose their job, even when I directly asked a manager I trust and he said that "no one from your department will lost his job". People don't trust … Continue Reading ››
Why do you never talk about the happiness you can derive from work itself, but always about the ancillary parts, i.e. the relations you have with your colleagues? Surely the job itself should be the greatest contributor to your happiness at … Continue Reading ››