More than a living

There is an uncomfortable, anxious pang that wells up in you when the halls have been empty for hours, and you know that you and the janitor are the only people in the building – again. You feel like maybe the fault is yours, that you aren’t quite working effective enough, that you could manage […]

I couldn’t let this one slip by us:
Open only to people who hate their jobs. Make a video of yourself demonstrating why your job is an insult to your intelligence and a squandering of your abilities.
For more information or to enter, visit Vimeo.

So, I’m watching some gangster flick the other night. Basically any gangster flick. Pick one.
At some point in the movie, someone will go and do something dumb. And then the heavy will decide to spare the idiot’s life but revoke all of his “privileges” for a certain town.
Take Marsellus Wallace and Butch Coolidge from Pulp […]

I’m a big fan of sustainability.
I’m, admittedly, not as good at as I could be. But I’m constantly working to get better. I’ve been recycling for nearly 20 years (yes, kids, there was once a time when people didn’t recycle), I purchase clean energy, I shop for organic goods, I frequent Portland’s veritable plethora of […]

Follow me, if you will, through a little scenario.
Let’s say you get a job offer.
This job entails your spending four years attempting to complete a project. You can take longer. You can take less. But four years is the generally accepted amount of time to complete the project.
You’ll be working with a number of other […]

We Gen-X types are a sandwich generation, stuck somewhere between the old and the new.

Too young to ignore technology, too old to truly understand its potential
Too young to have participated in the greed-rush of the ’80s, too old to have missed observing it
Too young to have acquired the respect of the previous generation, too old […]

I’m loving the thinking bouncing around, reading about value and influence at SystematicHR ” HR Versus Finance – Influence, Power, and a Seat at the Table Part 2” and ItzBigBlog “Want to increase ROI? Start investing in talent.” This is precisely what I love about blogs and blogging - seeing ideas spin in new and […]

We here at More than a living tend to bemoan the state of the workplace in the United States. It’s what we know, so it’s where we focus our critique.
A while back, Toby highlighted the level of dissatisfaction in the workplace.
Well, I thought I’d pile on–expanding the realm of dissatisfaction, as it were–with a recent […]

I don’t know about you, but one of the first things I want when I start a job or work with a client is an organizational chart. Knowing the working relationships between people, how teams are put together and who can sign-off on key decisions is critical to doing my job well. Unfortunately, the number […]

Ray Williams of the Financial Post writes “Gen X will change work culture“. Of this I have no doubt. But I am wondering what our organizations, our institutions will look like 20 years forward, when X and Y have put their stamp on the cultures of traditional organizations.
Studies by Bruce Tulgan (Managing Generation X), […]