Skip to content

Category Archives: Wisdom Wednesday

Wisdom Wednesday – If The Only Tool You Have Is A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail

If The Only Tool You Have Is A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail  

Posted 27 May 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Meetings

Running an effective meeting is one of the core skills managers and supervisors need in any organization.  (I don’t agree with everything in this picture but I do agree that meetings and how they are run is a reflection of your larger culture.)

Posted 20 May 2026 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Happy to Announce I’ve Accepted The Newly Created Position of Manager, Organizational Development, At RPL!

April Fool’s!

Posted 01 April 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 25 March 2026 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

Posted 18 March 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 […]

Posted 11 March 2026 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 04 March 2026 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Manager vs. Leader

@claleadership101 Accountability vs. ownership. I LOVE this shift that can free our people from micromanagement to ownership. Great way to engage the team in a fresh way where they take personal responsibility of their work and business. Change the words you use and create a culture of ownership and commitment. Here’s a simple framework to […]

Posted 04 February 2026 § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – As You Age, You Lose More and More Fucks To Give

@ericami1234 #silversprings #fyp #fleatwoodmack #foryou #viral ? original sound – ???? ???

Posted 21 January 2026 § Humour § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Dilbert As A Management Role Model? (With Bonus Donald Trump Reference in 2006?!?)

In “honour” of the death of Scott Adams, I present one of the papers I wrote in library school. This was my Management class and, you won’t be shocked to hear that I had a lot of skepticism about what we were being taught (you’ll be more shocked to learn that management was my highest […]

Posted 14 January 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,