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Wisdom Wednesday – At The End of the Day…
I think it was the very first post I made when I started doing these workplace/organizational culture themed “Wisdom Wednesday” posts – the best lesson the best manager I never directly worked for taught me. “At the end of the day, forget all the rules and policies and guidelines because those are just words on […]
Music Monday – “Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don’t take it all/’Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman.”
“Taxman” – The Beatles
Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale
With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]
Saturday Snap – A Fire in the Library!
Luckily, it was a pretend fire for a “Campfire Stories” program offered in partnership with Radio-Canada and CBC.
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Civic Engagement (February 2004, June 2009, Sept 2025)
I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]
Wisdom Wednesday – What Constitutes Great Customer Service (and How Far Is Too Far?)
A recent post in a Regina Rant & Rave group on FB got a lot of attention. Basically, a disabled person went to a Co-op gas station to get air in a low tire but couldn’t get it to work. They talked to the manager who didn’t help. But then a sixteen year old gas […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – All About All-Inclusives (Sept 2017)
Before programming at RPL was centralized, each branch got to plan their own programs. I sometimes put myself on the docket to talk about subjects I had a particualr knowledge (some might say expertise!) in…
Wisdom Wednesday – McDonald’s CEO Shows The Death of Fast Food (and the Importance of Knowing the Job)
It’s an ongoing debate about whether it’s better for managers to have direct frontline experience in their past or if a “good manager is a good manager” whether they’re selling insurance, dish soap or running a public library. We’re lucky in Saskatchewan that our province (and I believe BC) are the only provinces that require […]