Episodes 511
Avg. Duration 2m
Activity Dormant
Since Jun 2019
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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About This Podcast

Boost your career and success by learning to deal with the nonsense of pleasing a boss, playing nice with colleagues, making subordinates productive, and living a life. (Why should you learn to deal with nonsense at work? Because nonsense stops you from being successful. Nonsense is always at work. It never stops. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is always some sense in nonsense, if you look for it. And if you are willing to look for it, time and again you will find that you can make the nonsense at work work for you.) For more, visit https://nonsenseatwork.com

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Recent Episodes

Insight #161: How to Easily Hit Your Far-Out Goals

Mar 25, 2025 2m

I have been aiming too low to hit my far-out goals. And then, in frustration, I have chosen new targets, ones too close to matter, too below the mark to make a real impact.

Insight #5: Slow Down. You Speak Too Fast

Mar 18, 2025 2m

Speaking too fast is a common mistake. Here's why.

Trigger Question #163: Do You Do (Exactly) As Asked?

Mar 14, 2025 3m

Sometimes we are tempted to stick to the letter and to ignore the spirit of the contract between workers and management.

Insight #350: How You Fill the Position Determines What Happens to You

Mar 11, 2025 2m

Here's the thing about positions. Some people more than fill the position they are in and are soon promoted to something bigger.

Insight #57: Bliss in Hand Is Worth Two Hopes in the Mud

Feb 14, 2025 1m

We count on hope for a better future and we ignore bliss in the present. Then we act surprised when we land in the mud of the moment.

Insight #99: Nothing Happens Until You Make a Move, Any Old Move

Feb 13, 2025 1m

Nothing happens until you make a move. Your choice of first move is often limited. Yet, it sets in motion a series of actions that in looking back seem so obvious.

Insight #324: Don’t Brainstorm on a Cold Start

Feb 12, 2025 2m

If you want your team to lose mind control, then ask them to begin by conjuring up good ideas. No brain can weave and swerve and speed up and brake unless properly warmed up.

Insight #47: Your Goal Has a Gap Between Promised and Delivered

Feb 11, 2025 2m

Motivational gurus have conned us into believing that shouting a goal (the dream) in public or on social media will make us achieve it. Or risk being embarrassed. I think the concept is called…

Insight #344: Sometimes It Is Wiser To Decide To Delay Deciding

Feb 10, 2025 1m

I wish that leaders will learn the really, really critical skill of knowing when to decide and when to delay deciding.

Trigger Question #162: Do You Add or Subtract To Make Change Happen?

Feb 07, 2025 3m

This is not a trivial question. This explains how we often attempt to make change happen.

Insight #342: Beware, the Lack of Power Corrupts Us All

Feb 06, 2025 2m

Power corrupts. Or so we believe. And yet, it is feeling powerless which truly corrupts. Why? Because people who feel powerless often become dysfunctional.

Trigger Question #160: Who Do You Blame, the Person or the System?

Feb 05, 2025 1m

Yes, I agree, we must often begin problem solving by making assumptions because we seldom have all the information we need. But we will create a more effective work environment if we start with…

Insight #348: Diminishing Choices Make Us Who We Are So Far

Feb 04, 2025 2m

Now that I am wise to the burden of freedom, I see how freedom fathers too many dreams, which time relentlessly kills. In my case, I once wanted to be a yachtsman. Maybe a pilot. Or an engineer. Why…

Insight #106: Your Type of Success Depends on Your Choice of Effect

Feb 03, 2025 1m

Do you do things mainly to impress others? Or do you do things to accomplish something of consequence?

Trigger Question #158: Do You Want 'Better' or Do You Want 'Fix'?

Jan 31, 2025 2m

You cannot build a sustainable, competitive strategy based on what is wrong and what you are against. If you tried, the strategy you design would be to react to what-is or what-was.

Insight #347: Why Coaches and Consultants Love the Rude and Insensitive

Jan 30, 2025 2m

Without mutual respect, mutual trust is dead in the water. And without trust, we are so f... flawed at collaborating that we might as well dust off our spears and aim for the caves.

Insight #346: Take Away the Fuel That Feeds the Fight

Jan 29, 2025 2m

Why do we react without thinking to gossip in groups, catty comments from colleagues, and prophecies spouted by political opposites? Because we don’t apply the Law of Two Feet. We don’t walk away.

Trigger Question #157: Are You Unreasonable Without Reason?

Jan 28, 2025 2m

Pay attention, because I am going to help you spot unreasonable people at work. What do you mean you don't need my help? You think you know unreasonable when you see it?

Trigger Question #101: Do You Know What Your Goals Are For?

Jan 03, 2025 2m

We set goals because we think we know what outcomes we want. We think we must do “this” because we want “that.” Yet, we don’t always think deeply about *why* we want what we want. Not deep enough to…

Insight #322: Today Is the Start of Your New Honeymoon

Jan 02, 2025 2m

Every day is the start of a new year. But we like to forget that, don't we? We prefer to wait 300-and-something days for a ritual that will energize us to kick off a few grand resolutions.

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