photo credit: Steve-h A healthy corporate culture must ultimately be owned and championed by the CEO and his or her management team. At the same time, a corporate culture livesand breathes by the actions front-line employees take every day. In our 20 years work to define and heal ailing corporate cultures, we’ve learned small changes… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Cubicle Warrior
3 steps to tell your boss what to do
boss eyed by Johnny Hall Wouldn’t it be great to tell your boss what to do? And not where to go, so get your mind off that approach; it doesn’t work. Well, you can’t control what your boss does, but you can certainly influence your boss to get the decisions you want. Here’s three steps… Continue Reading
Why being a Cubicle Warrior gives you an unfair advantage
When you pay attention to your work environment and have a good understanding of what you want out of a job, you get an unfair advantage over those who don’t. You put your career on offense while most others are playing defense. By learning and using Cubicle Warrior skills on the job: Cubicle Warriors get… Continue Reading
10 ways Michael Jordan schools Cubicle Warriors on competiveness
Cubicle Warriors succeed in many ways, but underlying all of them is competitiveness. They understand that the workplace, while innovative, collaborative and social, is also a competition for building job skills, getting promotions, and getting paid. There is a reason there are performance reviews: they keep score. Michael Jordan, in Golf Digest, gave out 10… Continue Reading
Career Management Tip — Confidence Counts
This five-minute podcast talks through the need for confidence when facing adversity like we are now in this ugly job market. The career tip gives you five ways to restore confidence. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
If you thought 2008 was bad for layoffs…
If you thought 2008 was bad for layoffs, welcome to 2009. With layoffs often announced with earnings — and over 900 of the S&P companies announcing earnings this week — you can expect a lot of layoff announcements. CNN notes that today is “Bloody Monday” with over 71,000 layoffs announced. Yeah, 71,000. Whole cities are… Continue Reading
I want my hair cut — but don’t have time
The story Our intrepid Cubicle Warrior is charged with completing a technical document so that programmers can program the code to meet the important date needed by the business. It’s a critical document, so says the technical owner, and our Cubicle Warrior is under the gun. Great first meeting, getting the parameters of the document… Continue Reading
In 2005, we wanted to privatize Social Security
It is worth remembering that government counts and impacts Cubicle Warriors. In 2005, George W. Bush wanted to privatize Social Security — because the returns in the stock market would be so much better than what government could provide. He made a serious run at turning the responsibility of getting Social Security returns to the… Continue Reading
Do you work for health insurance?
Here in the United States, most health insurance is graced upon the individual Cubicle Warrior through a health policy provided by their employer. Not all employers, but many. As a consequence, some 47 million are uninsured and an additional 16 million or so essentially self-insure with programs that don’t kick in until one incurs high… Continue Reading
How to get your mojo back during the Great Recession
Let’s face it: many of us are getting beat down in the midst of the Great Recession. Whether we’ve been laid off once — or twice — or just have to continue working in jobs we don’t like, those events naturally get us off our game. There is that tipping point where we think everything… Continue Reading