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Category Archives: Wisdom Wednesday

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Lead Different Generations

Posted 22 October 2025 § Infographic § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Hurt A Narcissist

@adamcam10 How to hurt a narcissist ? original sound – Adam Cam

Posted 15 October 2025 § Jobs § Politics § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – As An Adult, You Cannot Be “In Trouble” With Another Adult

@okaywithkay not your boss, not your parents, not your partner. it’s a trauma response, not a healthy dynamic. ??? #anxiousattachment #peoplepleasing #therapytok ? original sound – okaywithkay

Posted 08 October 2025 § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – If Someone Says Covid Is “Over”…

Definitely don’t listen to the politicians.  And even many of the medical professionals misunderstand the ongoing risks. If you want to know the true status of Covid, listen to the insurance actuaries whose whole business model is predicated on predicting the actual financial costs of Covid to their companies (no different than insurance companies increasingly […]

Posted 01 October 2025 § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Shout Out To Thin Air

@ryanjamesahern #sales #b2b #george #manager #salesmanger #corporatehumor #corporatelife #officelife #office #officehumor #work #worklife #shareholders #profits #waste #quota ? original sound – Ryan Ahern  

Posted 24 September 2025 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Never Go To War With Your Staff (Because Even If You Win, You Lose!)

The recent Air Canada lockout where management basically admitted they were relying on the government to legislate flight attendants (who, among other asks, had the wild request to actually be paid for the entire time they’re working, not just when planes are in the air!) back to work. That happened but what they didn’t count […]

Posted 03 September 2025 § ‡ Comments (0) °

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 § Jobs § MemoryLane § 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 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ 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 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° 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 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,