I read a joke in a popular crosswords magazine that goes something like this: an aged lady walks on a seaside and sees an aged painter splashing colors on a board.
She asks him what the splashes are meant to be and the painter answers that he has not the faintest, he does it just to spend his time.
The lady comments: “You are lucky; my husband is retired, too, and he spends all his days lying drunk.” Continue reading
In my auditor’s peregrinations (I borrow the term from a recent Mr. Greg Hutchins’s e-mail message) I often met with organizational structures represented – more or less graphically – as pyramids or triangular shapes: the organization’s top management down to the work-force level. Continue reading
When facing a job change, it’s easy to get caught up thinking there is only one way to find work — by applying online. Confusion will set in if nothing is happening – or you perceive – nothing is happening. Job seeking is like trying to lose ten pounds. If you keep jumping on the scale every two days, you won’t see much progress, end up getting discouraged and falling into a hopeless mound of chocolate to soothe your woes. It takes time and consistency to find another job, let alone a good job. Continue reading
Over the past years, the NTSB and its sister organizations were very concerned about how flight check-lists were used, or not used in order to prevent their misuse and therefore prevent airplane crashes. Continue reading
“Am I not being considered for that job because I’m too old?”
Clients have whispered that question to me many times, afraid they’re washed up and unappreciated in the workplace, that no employer will want them as they move from mid- to senior-level positions. It’s a natural question, and when the economy is ailing and the job market is as tight as it has been, too many out-of-work older professionals begin to doubt their own value and even blame themselves for circumstances beyond their control. Continue reading