Category Archives: Work

Wisdom Wednesday – Trust Is More Important Than Performance

“We have a million metrics to measure performance but little to none to measure trustworthiness.” @simonsinek Promote the trustworthy, not just the high-performing. Is your team built on trust? ? #NavySEALs #LeadershipLessons ? original sound – Simon Sinek

Wisdom Wednesday – Counter Intuitive Leadership Principles

A long time ago, a senior leader at RPL told me “I know you like tech companies but libraries aren’t like those companies.  We do things differently.” I wasn’t advocating for trampolines in the hallways and personal chefs in the lunch room but I did wonder “Why” that person ruled out trying some different innovative […]

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Start Every Work Meeting…

@adamfrith_ Amen ? #animation #funny #foryou #fyp ? original sound – Dustin Nickerson

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy Appointversary To Me

My first day at RPL was September 8, 2008 but I never realised I was officially appointed to the position on September 5, 2008 so happy 16th appointversary to me!

Wisdom Wednesday – I’m Such A Team Player, I Really Enjoy My Job, And I Respect My Colleagues. But also…

…I cling madly to those studies that show swearing in a sign of higher-than-average intelligence! 😉 @the_mole_bag ????? #CapCut #meme #schittscreek #pov #workhumour #relatable #foryou #foryoupage #fyp #jokesss ? original sound – Nintendo – Nintendo  

Wisdom Wednesday – Who Could’ve Predicted Sick Time Would Increase Coming Out of a Worldwide Pandemic?!?

This may be a record as I’ve been collecting information and reading about and adding info to the ongoing draft of this blog post, for oh, over two years. I’ve been doing this, basically ever since society collectively decided that Covid was over and that we’d all stop masking, stop most precautions, and start acting […]

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Build A Team

@garyveevideoexperience “Want better company culture ??? Create these types of concepts that may help impact 2-4-40-400 employees, if you actually want great company culture, you must spend real time on it and not just your P&L .. hope this hits for some leaders!” – @GaryVee ? original sound – GaryVee Video Experience – GaryVee Video […]

Still Alive (But Still Taking A Blog Holiday)

We were camping for most of July in a place where Internet signal is pretty crappy (two bars max at all times and basically unusable on weekends when the park is full) plus life has been busy with a variety of things: * Buying a new vehicle/selling our old van * Inlaws downsizing their home […]

Wisdom Wednesday – First Day Back at Work After Holidays

@lindsayy_224 #relatable #backtowork #holiday ? original sound – Lindsayy_224

Wisdom Wednesday – Empathy at Its Foundation Includes Curiosity

Whereas other specialists know one subject deeply, one of the single best things about (most) librarians in my view is that we tend to be people who have a shallow but wide knowledge about a massive range of topics – politics, technology, pop culture, science, religion – and that curiosity about the world and other […]