NonsenseAtWork

This is Part 2 of 3 of "How to zoom through your meetings. Or zoom out of your job."

With a lot of luck, a garnish of garlic and a wooden stake or two, we can finally go back to…

…in-person meetings!

Maybe I got that wrong. Maybe it should be: With a lot of luck, a garnish of garlic and a wooden stake or two, we can finally kill off (unnecessary) meetings.

Not matter which one applies to you, I offer the following thoughts to make your next meeting less of a nonsense event.

Meetings, meetings, bl... boring meetings. Are you also tired of unproductive meetings?

Here's Part 4 of 4 of "When Tough Decisions Are Hard To Make… …Flip a Coin."

It’s time for all decision-makers (yes, you) to play the latest decisions-decisions game. Here’s how to play. Fill in the blanks between the brackets in the following sentence. Then drive yourself nuts trying to pick one:

To be (…) or not to be (…).

(Don’t let Prince Hamlet fool you. To be is not the question. To be is the decision. Your decision.)

Here are a few hints to get you going. To be (in the office) or not to be (in the office). To be (masked) or not to be (masked). To be (vaccinated) or not to be (vaccinated). To be (decisive) or not to be (decisive). To be (the leader they need me to be) or not to be (the leader they need me to be).

Now it’s your turn to play. But note these two rules. Playing is not optional — you may not decide to not decide. And your decisions reserve the right to go public, with or without your blessing. Rule #1 has always applied, but Rule #2 is new. That Virus has made many decisions, and non-decisions, go viral.

Have a nice game.

Here's Part 3 of 4 of "When Tough Decisions Are Hard To Make… …Flip a Coin."

It’s time for all decision-makers (yes, you) to play the latest decisions-decisions game. Here’s how to play. Fill in the blanks between the brackets in the following sentence. Then drive yourself nuts trying to pick one:

To be (…) or not to be (…).

(Don’t let Prince Hamlet fool you. To be is not the question. To be is the decision. Your decision.)

Here are a few hints to get you going. To be (in the office) or not to be (in the office). To be (masked) or not to be (masked). To be (vaccinated) or not to be (vaccinated). To be (decisive) or not to be (decisive). To be (the leader they need me to be) or not to be (the leader they need me to be).

Now it’s your turn to play. But note these two rules. Playing is not optional — you may not decide to not decide. And your decisions reserve the right to go public, with or without your blessing. Rule #1 has always applied, but Rule #2 is new. That Virus has made many decisions, and non-decisions, go viral.

Have a nice game.

Here's Part 2 of 4 of "When Tough Decisions Are Hard To Make… …Flip a Coin."

It’s time for all decision-makers (yes, you) to play the latest decisions-decisions game. Here’s how to play. Fill in the blanks between the brackets in the following sentence. Then drive yourself nuts trying to pick one:

To be (…) or not to be (…).

(Don’t let Prince Hamlet fool you. To be is not the question. To be is the decision. Your decision.)

Here are a few hints to get you going. To be (in the office) or not to be (in the office). To be (masked) or not to be (masked). To be (vaccinated) or not to be (vaccinated). To be (decisive) or not to be (decisive). To be (the leader they need me to be) or not to be (the leader they need me to be).

Now it’s your turn to play. But note these two rules. Playing is not optional — you may not decide to not decide. And your decisions reserve the right to go public, with or without your blessing. Rule #1 has always applied, but Rule #2 is new. That Virus has made many decisions, and non-decisions, go viral.

Have a nice game.

Have you ever wondered why decisions take so long in your organization?

This is Part 3 of 3 of "Kill a Flower for Mother’s Day Niceness. Mother Earth will deal with you later."

Listen up, you many kids of all ages. It’s almost Mother’s Day. You know what that means, don’t you? Florists are happy as flowers are sacrificed.

What about mothers? Believe it or not, this one-day be-nice behavior does not fool mothers. They worry about your conduct on the other 364 days.

(What if you don’t have a mother? You had one. Once. And you still have Mother Earth. She needs you now more than ever. So please leave her flowers alone.)

Listen up, you many kids of all ages. It’s almost Mother’s Day. You know what that means, don’t you? Florists are happy as flowers are sacrificed.

What about mothers? Believe it or not, this one-day be-nice behavior does not fool mothers. They worry about your conduct on the other 364 days.

This is Part 1 of 3 of "Kill a Flower for Mother’s Day Niceness. Mother Earth will deal with you later."

Listen up, you many kids of all ages. It’s almost Mother’s Day. You know what that means, don’t you? Florists are happy as flowers are sacrificed.

What about mothers? Believe it or not, this one-day be-nice behavior does not fool mothers. They worry about your conduct on the other 364 days.

(What if you don’t have a mother? You had one. Once. And you still have Mother Earth. She needs you now more than ever. So please leave her flowers alone.)

This is Part 3 of 3 of "We Teach Our Nonsense Well. Now we should pity our poor children."

Once upon a time, I knew nonsense when I saw it. I had no doubts, ifs, nor buts.

Back then nonsense and sense were clearly divided in my mind, even as I understood that what made sense to me might be nonsense to you. And, of course, vice versa. But today we present all kinds of uncommon nonsense as common sense.

We should pity our poor children, for we have failed the basic test of adulthood. Instead of helping the next generation make sense of our world, we’re spin-doctoring what was once worldly into nonsense.