Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare -
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
The No Asshole Rule
Quiz: Are You an A------?
Based on concepts from Robert Sutton's new book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, find out if you would be considered one of Suttton's "assholes."
Below is a list of 12 common everyday actions that assholes use, or as Robert Sutton likes to refer to it, "The Dirty Dozen." Score yourself based on how frequently, or how little you think you commit the following actions at work.
1 -- Never 2 -- Once a year 3 -- Once a month
4 -- Once a week 5 -- Daily
1. How often do you dish out personal insults?
2. How often do you invade the "personal territory" of others?
3. How often do you start uninvited physical contact with coworkers?
4. How often do you use verbal and non-verbal threats and intimidations?
5. How often do you make sarcastic jokes or teasing remarks?
6. How often do you send out withering e-mail flames?
7. How often do you intentionally demean people's status in front of others?
8. How often are you the instigator of public shaming or "status degradation" rituals?
9. How often do you interrupt people in a rude manner?
10. How often do you make two-faced attacks?
11. How often do you give coworkers dirty looks?
12. How often do you ignore others as if they are invisible?
SCORING:
Under 13: Not quite an asshole. You understand proper workplace etiquette, but you aren't perfect. You have some slip-ups every now and then; just make sure you keep them to a minimum and only when you're having a really bad day.
Under 25: Borderline asshole. Another mean move could put you over the edge. Your coworkers are developing hateful feelings towards you. Redeem yourself now while there's still time.
Between 26 and 45: Asshole alert. You have officially turned into a jerk and your negative demeanor is affecting everyone around you. You may want to start looking for a new job because you are probably in hot water with your boss.
Over 46: Extreme asshole. What's wrong with you? Didn't your mom teach you how to treat anyone right? You won't get anywhere if you continue to act the way you do. The polite thing to do is to dismiss yourself before your band of enemies team up and resort to drastic measures.
Based on concepts from Robert Sutton's new book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, find out if you would be considered one of Suttton's "assholes."
Below is a list of 12 common everyday actions that assholes use, or as Robert Sutton likes to refer to it, "The Dirty Dozen." Score yourself based on how frequently, or how little you think you commit the following actions at work.
1 -- Never 2 -- Once a year 3 -- Once a month
4 -- Once a week 5 -- Daily
1. How often do you dish out personal insults?
2. How often do you invade the "personal territory" of others?
3. How often do you start uninvited physical contact with coworkers?
4. How often do you use verbal and non-verbal threats and intimidations?
5. How often do you make sarcastic jokes or teasing remarks?
6. How often do you send out withering e-mail flames?
7. How often do you intentionally demean people's status in front of others?
8. How often are you the instigator of public shaming or "status degradation" rituals?
9. How often do you interrupt people in a rude manner?
10. How often do you make two-faced attacks?
11. How often do you give coworkers dirty looks?
12. How often do you ignore others as if they are invisible?
SCORING:
Under 13: Not quite an asshole. You understand proper workplace etiquette, but you aren't perfect. You have some slip-ups every now and then; just make sure you keep them to a minimum and only when you're having a really bad day.
Under 25: Borderline asshole. Another mean move could put you over the edge. Your coworkers are developing hateful feelings towards you. Redeem yourself now while there's still time.
Between 26 and 45: Asshole alert. You have officially turned into a jerk and your negative demeanor is affecting everyone around you. You may want to start looking for a new job because you are probably in hot water with your boss.
Over 46: Extreme asshole. What's wrong with you? Didn't your mom teach you how to treat anyone right? You won't get anywhere if you continue to act the way you do. The polite thing to do is to dismiss yourself before your band of enemies team up and resort to drastic measures.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Poem For The Day
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson -
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson -
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings
Men's Division I
1. Connecticut - Huskies should roll over Syracuse & Seton Hall.
2. Oklahoma - Good road test tomorrow night at Baylor.
3. Louisville - Lost to UConn, but who doesn't? ND next.
4. Pittsburgh - Nice win vs West Va, hosts Cincinnati Saturday.
5. North Carolina - Bilas thinks they are #1, at Duke, at Miami, ouch!
6. Memphis - Great win at Gonzaga, they are for real.
7. Wake Forest - Stumbled vs Miami, tough game at NC St. Wed.
8. Michigan State - Playing well again, at Michigan tonight.
9. Marquette - Lost at So. Fla, another road test at Villanova tonight.
10. Arizona State - Sun Devils host UCLA Thursday
11. Clemson - Beat Duke, lost to Fla. St., go figure, at BC tonight.
12. Xavier - Bad loss to Duquesne, at 21-3 Dayton Wednesday.
13. UCLA - Beat USC & ND, now they take the Arizona trip.
14. Butler - They are the team nobody wants to play in March.
15. Villanova - Every Big East game is tough, Marquette tonight.
16. Missouri - Beat Texas, Iowa St, Kansas; enough said.
17. Illinois - Tall and athletic, N'western and Indiana next.
18. Utah State - 23-1, Best shooting percentage in the country.
19. Purdue - Slumping Boilermakers host Penn St. Wednesday.
20. Florida State - Great wins vs Ga. Tech & Clemson, WF Sat.
21. Syracuse - At UConn Wed., they will be tourney tough.
22. Davidson - How far can Stephen Curry take them?
23. Boston College - No easy games left for the Eagles.
24. Providence - Friars have lost 3 straight, at South Fla. tonight.
25. Massachusetts - Struggling Minutemen have lost 4 of 5.
Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 20-0, Powerhouse Oilers host Northwood Wednesday.
2. CW Post - 18-0, Pioneers host Bridgeport on Saturday.
3. Virginia Union - Watch out! The Panthers have won 15 straight.
4. St. Anselm - 13-9 Hawks hit the road, Pace tonight, LeMoyne Sat.
5. Bridgeport - Teairez Stennis is coming off a 23 pt, 20 reb. game.
Men's Division III
1. Saint Thomas - 21-0 Tommies rule the division.
2. Washington U., St. Louis, - 19-1 Bears walloped Brandies.
3. Elms - Blazers beat Daniel Webster by 30, host Becker tonight.
4. UMass-Dartmouth - 19-2 Corsairs are at R.I. College tonight.
5. Framingham State - Josue Almodovar is averaging 20.9 pts.
Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Men's team is also number one.
2. Oklahoma - Men's team is also number two.
3. California - 12 straight wins, at Stanford Saturday.
4. Baylor - Bounced back after 2 close losses.
5. Boston College - 3 straight losses, at Miami next Monday.
1. Connecticut - Huskies should roll over Syracuse & Seton Hall.
2. Oklahoma - Good road test tomorrow night at Baylor.
3. Louisville - Lost to UConn, but who doesn't? ND next.
4. Pittsburgh - Nice win vs West Va, hosts Cincinnati Saturday.
5. North Carolina - Bilas thinks they are #1, at Duke, at Miami, ouch!
6. Memphis - Great win at Gonzaga, they are for real.
7. Wake Forest - Stumbled vs Miami, tough game at NC St. Wed.
8. Michigan State - Playing well again, at Michigan tonight.
9. Marquette - Lost at So. Fla, another road test at Villanova tonight.
10. Arizona State - Sun Devils host UCLA Thursday
11. Clemson - Beat Duke, lost to Fla. St., go figure, at BC tonight.
12. Xavier - Bad loss to Duquesne, at 21-3 Dayton Wednesday.
13. UCLA - Beat USC & ND, now they take the Arizona trip.
14. Butler - They are the team nobody wants to play in March.
15. Villanova - Every Big East game is tough, Marquette tonight.
16. Missouri - Beat Texas, Iowa St, Kansas; enough said.
17. Illinois - Tall and athletic, N'western and Indiana next.
18. Utah State - 23-1, Best shooting percentage in the country.
19. Purdue - Slumping Boilermakers host Penn St. Wednesday.
20. Florida State - Great wins vs Ga. Tech & Clemson, WF Sat.
21. Syracuse - At UConn Wed., they will be tourney tough.
22. Davidson - How far can Stephen Curry take them?
23. Boston College - No easy games left for the Eagles.
24. Providence - Friars have lost 3 straight, at South Fla. tonight.
25. Massachusetts - Struggling Minutemen have lost 4 of 5.
Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 20-0, Powerhouse Oilers host Northwood Wednesday.
2. CW Post - 18-0, Pioneers host Bridgeport on Saturday.
3. Virginia Union - Watch out! The Panthers have won 15 straight.
4. St. Anselm - 13-9 Hawks hit the road, Pace tonight, LeMoyne Sat.
5. Bridgeport - Teairez Stennis is coming off a 23 pt, 20 reb. game.
Men's Division III
1. Saint Thomas - 21-0 Tommies rule the division.
2. Washington U., St. Louis, - 19-1 Bears walloped Brandies.
3. Elms - Blazers beat Daniel Webster by 30, host Becker tonight.
4. UMass-Dartmouth - 19-2 Corsairs are at R.I. College tonight.
5. Framingham State - Josue Almodovar is averaging 20.9 pts.
Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Men's team is also number one.
2. Oklahoma - Men's team is also number two.
3. California - 12 straight wins, at Stanford Saturday.
4. Baylor - Bounced back after 2 close losses.
5. Boston College - 3 straight losses, at Miami next Monday.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Thought For The Day
The most powerful tool you have is taking responsibility for how you think and what you focus on. What you think is what happens."
- Patricia Moreno -
- Patricia Moreno -
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