Category: Satire
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Ship-Ing?
Webster defines leadership as: (noun) a position as a leader of a group, when a person holds the position of leader, or the power or ability to lead other people. Read that definition again and notice that “leadership” is defined as a noun. Nouns are, if School House Rock is to be believed (and it… Read more
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Self Help
Regarding self-help books I admit: I am NOT a big fan. While teaching several ICBM classes, I often have to deliver this disappointing news from the front of a classroom full of young self-help-book enthusiasts. Before the responses and book-club applications come flooding in, allow me a chance to offer a more-complete answer: While I… Read more
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Managing Employee Retention with Quarterbacks, Interceptions, and Therapists.
In assessing football quarterbacks, one metric stands out more than any other as a predictor of greatness (or adequacy…or even failure) and that is the touchdown-to-interception ratio. In simple terms, over many drives-down-the-field, it is the most accurate measure of efficiency and predictor of success for a team. No measure is more accurate. How good… Read more
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Back, to the Office
It’s 2022, all your staff is vaccinated for, immunized against or apathetic about COVID and it’s many many variants. Do you know what that means? It means it time to round up all those work from home slackers and herd them back to the office. Unfortunately because it is no longer legal to round up… Read more
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Great Resignation
Current headlines read like a menu for the coming managerial appocolypse: “The Great Resignation: Why Millions are Quitting Their Jobs“, “The Great Resignation Continues“, or even “Great Resignation, Literally Worse Than Hitler.” But as we’ve all come to know, and hopefully expect, headlines are meant to attract attention. And in each of these stories, not… Read more
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Say ‘Nope’ to Hope.
In Corporate America, all hope is not lost, but it should be. We need to kill it while there is still time. — I just got out of a terrible leadership conference in Portland which broke one of my basic rules. Conferences must be engaging and inspiring OR they must have good coffee. Either/or is… Read more
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A Blueprint for Difficult Financial Times
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and this is not to be considered financial advice. Buyer beware. Mileage may vary. Past performance may have been pure luck or simply misrecorded. At ICBM we recognize and acknowledge the difficult financial times facing us all. In the past, we have limited access to the following information… Read more
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Time for a Pep Talk
Hey Humpty, if you want to make an omelet you have to crack some eggs. I know many of you are down. Maybe even out. And, times are tough. I am not here to deny that the path here has been hard – instead I’m going to lay a yellow brick road right at your… Read more
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Quiet-Quitters? It’s Time to Make Some Noise!
Unless you’re a manager that’s been living under a rock for the last year you must have read the headlines about Quiet-Quitting. In a nutshell, Quiet-Quitting is a passive-aggressive attempt by employees to reduce their workload in response to a perceived slight by management. If you pay attention to business media you would think QQ… Read more
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Shhh! I am trying to Quiet-Quit Over here
Contrary to what you might expect, here at ICBM, we are actually fans of Quiet-Quitting. This relatively new phenomenon is causing quite a stir in the corporate world. Once the dust settles, it will become evident that Quiet-Quitting is the inevitable response to several passive-aggressive practices which have been in use by managers for years.… Read more