A Daily Prescription for Attitude Problems – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 24, 2008 

If your micro-manager suddenly volunteers to bring you coffee in the morning, you might want to check the bottom of the cup for sarcasma residue. Like the can’t-sit-still children waiting for their ritalin outside the school nurse’s door, can’t you see the unruly corporate under-employed being lined up to have their daily sarcasma pill administered […]

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Judging Employee Potential Is Easy – Making Meaning of the Shades of Gray

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 21, 2008 

I had my semi-annual dental visit last week. No cavities! As the dentist read my x-rays, I thought, how can he tell anything from that? It just looks like shades of gray. I had the same level of amazement during my children’s ultrasounds. I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I couldn’t tell a foot from […]

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Adaptive Path At Destiny’s Door

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 18, 2008 

During my typical morning internet surfing, my circuitous route led me to this CEO job opening announcement at Adaptive Path.? Love the?name. ?After reading their website, I’m sure my management consulting firm, PeopleFit, could benefit from their” finding-your-market” and product design services.?? I still don’t fully understand what they do, but they seem hip, savvy, […]

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The Bookshelf Doth Mocketh

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 15, 2008 

I’ve been tagged by Jim Stroup at Managing Leadership. The Assignment My assignment is to post sentences 6 – 8 on page 123 of a book that I am reading, list books yet to be read on my bookshelf, and pass the tag along. Truth be told, I’m not currently reading any books as I […]

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Know Thyself

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 14, 2008 

This is a continuation of my last post where I asserted that you really cannot be anything you want to be,?and believing that you can be anything will leave you either depressed or judgmental. It Begins in Childhood The work of children is to figure out the world – to understand it physically and relationally. […]

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Can We Really Be Anything We Want to Be?

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 13, 2008 

A quote on David Zinger’s blog got me thinking. Ninety percent of the world?s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves ~ Sydney J. Harris Is this because self discovery is […]

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Requisite Organization Training Course – June 4 – Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 9, 2008 

Now that I’ve bashed training as nothing more than lipstick on a pig, I thought I’d offer some. Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. On June 4, I’ll be leading a short course on some of the basics of the model and their implications […]

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Fertile Innovative-Risktaker Recruiting Terrain – A Friday Fascinating

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 3, 2008 

Companies frequently lament the lack of innovators and risk takers within their organizations. Maybe instead of B-schools, recruiters should start hanging out at freestyle motocross events.

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Is Training Anything More Than Putting Lipstick on a Pig?

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 2, 2008 

A friend sent me a Financial Times article written by Sathnam Sanghera, a gentleman who was thrilled when his Icebreaker training course was canceled.? Even though I frequently play the role of trainer, I found it a funny article worth a read. In the article, Sathnam cited these statistics: In 2006, Hudson, a New York […]

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Are You a Happily Employed Superstar? Cash In with NotchUp

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 1, 2008 

Here’s a new twist on the war for talent. NotchUp is a free, resume-posting site for superstars who are not looking for a job. The twist? Employers pay for the opportunity to woo you by paying you to interview. The Process You post your resume, set your price, and go about your career. Employers who […]

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