I understand your frustration (obviously), but I don't want you to shut up and watch things derail. Emergency meeting tomorrow!
petrol
· 5 years ago
I tried something similar to a blog when I was corporate, but with results similar to yours. My VP (that is, the VP of IS) took me to lunch one time to listen to salespitch A, and explain the finer points of office politics B.
me: But look at it - it's human nature to talk about oneself, and one does it all the time. entire speeches start with I. I did this I did that I think this etc. ...So writing about one's opinions is the natural extension, isn't that logical?
him: Sure. Sure it is. In an ideal world. Listen. You're new. Give it some time. Give em a while to get the hang of it. But... then again, maybe not. Look at the people you're working with.
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I don't get it. It's SO easy to call for a meeting over the phone or via email (thank you Outlook, gdmf....) and shouldn't a blog make it even easier to discuss ideas, offer suggestions, etc. Maybe because the nature of a blog is that it's personal? But what about group blogs? How do those work? Maybe they work because the participants are to some degree intimate with each other - that is - they are familiar with the others' habits, patterns (either IRL or online) and there is some measure of ... friendship? A comfort level? (What's the right word to use here? )
But isn't working in the same company - the same building or floor (cubicle kingdom) one of the most intimate situations one can ever be in? Sharing the same intranet, water cooler, breakroom, lavatories? Or is it this forced intimacy which makes people erect walls where there shouldn't be?
I remember a design fad in the mid/late Nineties where cubicle farms did away with the walls and "opened up" the workspace by lowering or totally eliminating cubicle walls. I think the Swiss started it. Or the Belgians? But all that does is reinforce the invisible wall - or what I call "office gameface", where one has to come up with better and newer ways of looking busy while actually getting nothing done. Well, nothing except endless porn/games/chatting/mp3 downloading and everything else except the work that's described in the ever-so-handy job description.
And then they call in these so-called efficiency experts.
Wtf.
(Sorry if this turned out to be another rant. But I'm with you. Hope your mblog at work works out.) (:
Edited on Jul 28th 2004, 07:12 by petrol
bhattathiri
· 2 years ago
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Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their weaknesses irrelevant, says the Management Guru Peter Drucker. It creates harmony in working together - equilibrium in thoughts and actions, goals and achievements, plans and performance, products and markets. It resolves situations of scarcity, be they in the physical, technical or human fields, through maximum utilization with the minimum available processes to achieve the goal. Lack of management causes disorder, confusion, wastage, delay, destruction and even depression. Managing men, money and materials in the best possible way, according to circumstances and environment, is the most important and essential factor for a successful management.
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me: But look at it - it's human nature to talk about oneself, and one does it all the time. entire speeches start with I. I did this I did that I think this etc. ...So writing about one's opinions is the natural extension, isn't that logical?
him: Sure. Sure it is. In an ideal world. Listen. You're new. Give it some time. Give em a while to get the hang of it. But... then again, maybe not. Look at the people you're working with.
--
I don't get it. It's SO easy to call for a meeting over the phone or via email (thank you Outlook, gdmf....) and shouldn't a blog make it even easier to discuss ideas, offer suggestions, etc. Maybe because the nature of a blog is that it's personal? But what about group blogs? How do those work? Maybe they work because the participants are to some degree intimate with each other - that is - they are familiar with the others' habits, patterns (either IRL or online) and there is some measure of ... friendship? A comfort level? (What's the right word to use here? )
But isn't working in the same company - the same building or floor (cubicle kingdom) one of the most intimate situations one can ever be in? Sharing the same intranet, water cooler, breakroom, lavatories? Or is it this forced intimacy which makes people erect walls where there shouldn't be?
I remember a design fad in the mid/late Nineties where cubicle farms did away with the walls and "opened up" the workspace by lowering or totally eliminating cubicle walls. I think the Swiss started it. Or the Belgians? But all that does is reinforce the invisible wall - or what I call "office gameface", where one has to come up with better and newer ways of looking busy while actually getting nothing done. Well, nothing except endless porn/games/chatting/mp3 downloading and everything else except the work that's described in the ever-so-handy job description.
And then they call in these so-called efficiency experts.
Wtf.
(Sorry if this turned out to be another rant. But I'm with you. Hope your mblog at work works out.) (:
Edited on Jul 28th 2004, 07:12 by petrol
Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their weaknesses irrelevant, says the Management Guru Peter Drucker. It creates harmony in working together - equilibrium in thoughts and actions, goals and achievements, plans and performance, products and markets. It resolves situations of scarcity, be they in the physical, technical or human fields, through maximum utilization with the minimum available processes to achieve the goal. Lack of management causes disorder, confusion, wastage, delay, destruction and even depression. Managing men, money and materials in the best possible way, according to circumstances and environment, is the most important and essential factor for a successful management.