Tag: responsibility

Responsibility 101

My sister-in-law speaks loudly. I am annoyed. I had an epiphany yesterday. I said to myself “That is happening. I am doing this.” She was speaking. The words were loud (but, is loudness just relative?) My stomach tightened, and I thought unkind thoughts about her. By removing any words having to do with causality, I not

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March 18, 2015 Short URL, Productivity, Working Together

Victimized by a Bag of Trash

A long time ago I moved into a modest apartment in a poorer part of town.  I opened the back window and was at once assaulted by an unpleasant odor.  I soon located the source of the stench: an oversized heavy-duty black trash bag on the back balcony filled with moldy garbage. I was incensed.  My thinking

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January 8, 2014 Short URL, , , , , , , , , , Career Development, Management, School District Jobs, Working Together

When to Say No

I recently overheard two employees chatting with their supervisor. “We want to learn Excel” they said. “Can you teach us?”  They do not need to know Excel for the work they do currently.  Much of the time they are doing data entry.  However the next position up the pay scale uses Excel extensively.  The supervisor

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September 29, 2013 Short URL, , , , , , , , , , , , , Accounting, Excel, School District Jobs, Working Together

Data Woes

Every business transaction creates data.  Ensuring easy and efficient transaction entry is on the top of everyone’s list when evaluating a new financial system.  However, information must not only get into a system it must get out again.  The main methods of retrieving data are canned reports, and dumping data into Excel for ad hoc analysis. The Dangers

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September 2, 2013 Short URL, , , , , , Data, Excel