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Pointless Conversations

30 August, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Management meetings Do you ever lose the will to live in management meetings?  Sometimes they are so bad I want to scoop out my eyeballs with a tea-spoon.  I’d do anything to get out of the conversation. I hate futile meetings that are a waste of everybody’s time — usually highly paid people’s time. Here […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, command and control, cost saving, diversity, effective meetings, employee performance measures, forced fun, key performance indicators, management style, motivation, objective setting, office productivity, performance management, targets, waste, wasted intellect

Adult Fun

16 August, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Fun at work

This is hard work Writing a blog is no picnic It takes research; I have to read to get new ideas It is tedious; how do you get a single idea down to a clear concise point? It is boring; editing, editing and re-editing — particularly with my penchant for typos Ideas don’t suddenly materialise […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: forced fun, motivation

Forced Fun: Is it Working Yet?

31 December, 2011 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Forced Fun at Work

You must have fun! I worked for an organisation that believed in having fun at work.  If you were having fun you were happy and if you were happy you were engaged and if you were engaged you were productive (or so the logic went). To make sure we were all having fun we had […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: forced fun, motivation

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