More than a living

When it comes to my vision of the archetypal business person, certified public accountants (CPAs) are right up there. I have a hard time coming up with someone in the organization who is more businessy (technical term) than a CPA.
Maybe that’s just me.
Going with that thought, I also see CPAs as being willing to “put […]

Much of the time, we at little ol’ More than a living tend to get on the soapbox a bit. Raining fire and brimstone down upon the modern day workplace. Its foibles. And its inadequacies.
Sometimes that can seem a bit negative. We don’t mean for it to be. But it can be that way.
So, I’m […]

Not that this comes as a shock to you, gentle reader, but a recent survey by Vital Smarts provides some more fuel for the “your organization doesn’t know what it’s doing” fire.
Turns out, most folks are well attuned to the impending doom of corporate projects. But they remain silent. Allowing the project to fail. Seems […]

The Chief Happiness Officer has offered to give away free PDFs of his book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5, to the first 50 100 people to comment on the post entitled, “Is your workplace unhappy? Get my book for free.” You’re also allowed to spread the joy, as it were, to anyone in the […]

For many of us, working from home holds a great deal more appeal than sitting in a noisy–or worse yet, deathly silent–cube farm, day-in, day-out.
I know that I’m more productive here than I ever was in the office. And I hear many folks echoing the same sentiment. And when you cut the commute down from […]

Sorry, but the geek in me compells me to say, “This is Red 5, standing by.”
Phew. Now that that is out of the way…
Red5, founded by former members of Blizzard Entertainment (the company behind titles like World of Warcraft), deserves recognition for its compelling, creative, entertaining, respectful, drool-inducing recruiting campaign.
If only everyone paid this much […]

Okay, I know she’s using employee types to describe software applications.
But, I mean, c’mon. Strip that away and you’ve still got some archetypal employee types.
This is well worth the read: Creating Passionate Users: Is your app an ass-kisser?
I think I’m somewhere among the “Showoff,” the “Anal-Retentive Guy,” and “Brilliant but tempermental.”

The folks over at Gawker are currently running a contest to find New York’s most evil boss. Which leads us More than a living types (apparently all atwitter about The No Asshole Rule and who have heard some doozies as far as “bad boss” stories go) to wonder…
How do the evil bosses in good ol’ […]

Our pursuits here at More than a living are often twofold. Two sides of the same coin.
On one hand, we’re in the business of helping you focus. Helping you find perspective. And helping you get the most out of you. Helping you find meaning.
On the other, we’re trying to help you identify the primary barriers […]

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer “A’s and B’s for everyone“:

83% of Americans believe they are above-average workers
74% of American adults believe they have above-average common sense
58% of Americans believe they have above-average IQs
94% of university professors say they are better at their job than their average colleague

Remember, it’s all about the perspective.
If most of your […]