Are you a dumbass manager?
Do you believe long hours means more productivity? Do believe controlling employees v. trusting them drives morale? Do you believe face-to-face meetings is the only way to build and sustain teams?
If you said yes to all those questions….Y
ou’re a dumbass.
I could beat up the premise common sense is lost on a lot of folks, but, well, you know this. However, when the absence of common sense impacts the way you live your life, what do you do?
Because I am no longer forced to be at a work station/area nor required to adhere to a traditional work schedule, all areas of my life have become so much more fulfilling. However, if people see me with my laptop open (no matter where I am), the first question I’m asked is, “Are you working?”
Short answer, probably.
But….what I do for a career, I love, and how I do it, feels a kabillion times better than it ever did. Thank you ROWE. The big difference is I may also be doing stuff for my band, connecting with friends and family, creating content for my blog, or just soakin’ up some electronic information.
However if my laptop is not open in front of me, this does not mean my mind is not open to life, because I am forever thinking about my friends and family, my next blog post, my next gig, and changing the world of work. I’m living and loving everything I’m up to, which includes my career.
Some other cool responses to, “Are you working?”
Joe Longo: “I’m just living.”
Jody Thompson: In a ROWE, you are not working 24/7, you are living 24/7.
James A. Michener: The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Live it up!
This is my “Say YES! To Technology” speech. I sound like someone trying to make their first sale. My point is, technology can help people do good. Connect people. Start and influence business. Make [some] things easier. Change the world.
Do you still think the internet is just an electronic depository of porn and scams?
Today my good friend, Joe Longo, talks about photography, nature, technology, and how the way we work just makes no damn sense!
Though this piece highlights the coolness of technology as well as the potential psychological effects on children, I can’t help but think about how traditional work environments will jump on this and present it to employees as a perk. Just like that TV in the break room during March Madness. Give me a break!
Seriously, how long are you going to continue to just be told how to do things in your life? From how you are educated to how you are forced to work. Just because the systems have not caught up with the times does not mean you should be held back too.
Why not drive the conversation by participating in it v. trying to control it.
Gary Vaynerchuk on social media being steak not pepper
Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who will make the best of a miserable situation…
