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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 § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ 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 § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ 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 § Jobs § MusicMonday § News § Politics § UK ‡ 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 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ 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 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Driven To Read

Organized a huge (and hugely successful!) vehicle/literacy themed event called “Driven To Read” at the library today…

Posted 10 May 2025 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – The Real Luxuries in Life

 

Posted 23 April 2025 § Family § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “These are finest times of my life/This is the greatest time of my life This is the greatest time of my life/These are the biggest times of my life”

A colleague sent me this song I’d never heard before and, true story, it hit me just right so I ended up tearing up in my cubicle.  (That may have been the intention?) “Bill Is Dead” – The Fall

Posted 21 April 2025 § MusicMonday § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – But…

A senior manager recently said “I don’t want to say the word ‘but’ because everyone knows that when you say ‘but’, the next thing you say is going to be negative or bad news.” She then went on to say “However…” to speak against something someone had done that had taken a huge amount of […]

Posted 16 April 2025 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Why Millennials and Gen Z Don’t Care About Work

And once again, Gen X gets forgotten… 😉 @mikemancusi Why young people don’t care about work #work #workethic #millennial #genz ? original sound – Mike Mancusi  

Posted 09 April 2025 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,