I'm charmed by Jurgen Appelo, a "writer, speaker, developer,
entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader,
freethinker, and… Dutch guy." Jurgen lives at http://www.noop.nl/
- When you send an email message to your manager, make the number
of people in the cc proportional to the number of complaints in
that message. If it's really serious, send the cc to the whole
organization.
- To any urgent verbal request from your manager, reply that you
will be working on it straight away. Then ignore it. Repeat this
procedure until your manager starts turning blue, then send your
manager a hyperlink to some web page about "servant
leadership."
- Select any two arbitrary departments and complain that there's
too little communication between them. One hour later, complain
about time wasted in too many meetings.
- Tell your manager that you can never find the time to work on
self-development, because of the
sheer size of your workload. Then one hour later, book a lengthy
vacation.
**(On point #4...RPS 2010 delivers on self-development speakers, and San
Diego is sure nice for vaca :)
- Marti@theSummit
