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Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act?  How do they treat people?  How do they support people?  How do they enable people to do their best work?  Are they well-liked by staff?  Do staff even know who they are?  (If they don’t, do […]

Posted 11 June 2025 § MemoryLane § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 10 Promises to Myself (August 2010)

Fairly early in my career, I wrote a post called “10 Promises To Myself” where I tried to outline how I would approach my career and how I would always try to be true to my own values even if there was pressure to compromise for career advancement or financial rewards or even just pressure […]

Posted 05 June 2025 § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – The Two Core Types of Personalities

Humanity is forever trying to put people into boxes – 34 CliftonStrengths, 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, 5 Conflict Styles, 4 True Colours, etc. etc. One observation I’ve had over the years is that, when you boil it right down, there are really only two personality types – black & white thinkers and grey area thinkers. […]

Posted 04 June 2025 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – AI Video Is Unreal

Apparently right now, each AI video takes the equivalent energy to running a microwave for an hour.  But when the world melts, at least we’ll have a bunch of deep fakes to think of… We are cooked. Google Veo 3 just broke the internet. 10 wild examples 1. Nothing is real anymorepic.twitter.com/IZdIinReNk — Md Riyazuddin […]

Posted 30 May 2025 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – (Most) Work Is Not That Serious

Especially for public libraries and doubly so having an RN wife who’s entire job is working with high risk pregnancies, knowing that every single day, the wrong decision could result in bad health outcomes or even death for a mother and/or baby. Here’s how I often frame it: “Libraries aren’t heart attacks and handcuffs even […]

Posted 28 May 2025 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We don’t get fooled again/Don’t get fooled again, no, no/Yeah/Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss

“Won’t Get Fooled Again” – The Who

Posted 26 May 2025 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § UK § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Middle Managers Are The Most Hated Position in Any Organization

@natoutofoffice People love to hate middle management ? original sound – natoutofoffice  

Posted 21 May 2025 § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Support vs. Congratulations

Needs one section added in the middle showing about half a dozen shadowy figures behind the guy with the briefcase that’s labeled: “The questions about the wrong things.” @hustlesfree Think about it. How many times have you wanted something or wanted to achieve a certain goal and no one supported you? But when you accomplish […]

Posted 14 May 2025 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Would You Take Us Through A Typical Day For You?

Such a classic movie pointing out how much of our “work” is inane busy work and other bullshit games. @2008229_0108 ? original sound – InstaMakeover

Posted 07 May 2025 § Humour § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s a working man I am/And I’ve been down under ground/And I swear to God if l ever see the sun Or for any length of time I can hold it in my mind/I never again will go down under ground”

Decided to go to Regina’s “Day of Mourning” event at City Hall this year. Twenty-seven people died workplace-related deaths last year and this was the first year I knew one of them which makes the whole thing a lot more real. This was a song they played at the end of the ceremony. “Working Man” […]

Posted 28 April 2025 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,