The idea of Teamwork has become a sort of fashion statement in the employment industry, with interview questions and a lot of rhetoric. Our employee sees this as a fable, and has a few suggestions for turning Teamwork into more than a nursery rhyme for managers.
On the job, you will find you are often confronted with quite futile, counterproductive situations. You may be expected to do things or follow some process which is basically a waste of your time, because you get nothing out of it. Bureaucratic processes are the obvious issues. On the job, they can be a total waste of time, [...]
Some home truths about motivation, what works, and what doesn’t work. If you’re a supervisor or a manager, you need to read this.
Bureaucracy is the ancient curse of business, and it reduces everything to a crawl. It’s time to stop doing that.
Nobody can pay you to like being bored to death or worked into the ground by sheer overload. The workplace, the working week, and a few suggestions on how to lighten the load.
Not everybody’s too impressed with the version of stress management being sold as the answer to hellish workplaces. From the coalface, another viewpoint.
Redundancy can be your way to a better life. It can create opportunities you might never have otherwise had.
