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Apparently, if your boss is a psychopath he/she doesn’t have to be a mass murderer.  They just have to fit a handful of characteristics that appear to me to look a bit too familiar.

Hopefully you aren’t caught working for someone like this, but there are some things you can do, according to this article.

I recognized more than one person in my years as a consultant from this article.

What if the boss is a psychopath?

The article entitled “Is Information Overload Making You Sick” blames stress-related illness on the amount of information that people must deal with each day.

To me, it’s a lot like blaming your skin cancer on the presence of the sun.

But what do you think?

I wrote an article in the Jamaica Sunday Gleaner yesterday that got an immediate reaction from those who heard the speech it was based on.  I make the point that values programs don’t work because they can’t work, and the more we talk about them, the more trouble we cause.

To access the article AND the 22 minute speech, follow this link:

Click here to read/listen to Changing Values by Ignoring Them.

Leave me a comment on the blog or on the audio page.

Francis

While I wrote this article about Jamaican employees, I believe that what I have to say applies to some degree to all our region’s companies.

Sometimes, visions of the future aren’t enough to get our people motivated and we must use other means.  The most recent research in this area can be quite helpful…

Read it and let me know what you think of the ideas published recently in the Jamaica Gleaner:  Inspiring Jamaican Employees.

I tempted the fates by addressing a hot-button issue that’s been in the press lately.
It touches on the reasons why CSME is so important, and what happens when we don’t spend enough time to understand the human resource impact of regional decisions.

This article was carried in the Trinidad Newsday, but it was reprinted on the Guardian Life website (thanks to them for their ongoing sponsorship of the column.)

I recently wrote a newspaper article about the Black Holes of corporate life in Jamaica that I think applies to the entire Caribbean. It has nothing to do with astronomy, but instead refers to people whose un-productivity leads to others avoiding them, even when they happen to be very, very nice.

Click here: The Black Holes of Corporate Life
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I wrote this rather provocative article a few weeks ago and it was published in the Gleaner under a similar title:  Why Jamaicans Have to Migrate to Become Productive.

Shortly after, I was interviewed on TVJ about the article, which got some interesting reactions on Facebook and the Gleaner website.

I’m eager to hear what you might think about this idea, and how it might apply to your Caribbean island or territory. Please leave me a comment below the P.S.

P.S. If you are in Jamaica, you might want to attend my programme on January 13th where I actually show people how to craft  their own productivity system suitable for their life here in the Caribbean, or anywhere they might find themselves in the future.  See http://newhabitsja.info for information on the NewHabits-NewGoals Programme.

I won’t argue that this is absolutely true, but my evidence suggests that there were lots of us in the US who were forced by the environment to take things up a notch.

Here is an article that I wrote for the Jamaica Gleaner that spoke to this topic.

(Please forgive the typo in the online headline…)  Click here to see the article online:  http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101205/business/business8.html
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It’s time to try something new.

It’s always time!

Tues Oct 5th is the first test broadcast of a new venture here at CaribHRForum called “CaribHR.Radio.”

As the name implies, it’s a radio show based on an internet broadcast platform called blogtalkradio.

I’m hoping that the show will become a regular feature of life here at CaribHRForum, but that will depend at the end of the day on the kind of listenership and sponsorship we’re able to attract.

We’ll see how it all plays out in the end, but the first show will feature Elaine Bourne.  She’s an industrial psychologist who was recently elected President of HRMAB, and she’ll be sharing some of the plans in the works for 2010-11, plus share a bit about the conference coming up on October 14-15.

Also, one of our frequent bloggers, Dr. Nathan Charles, will be on the show to speak to his most recent post which he intends to be a challenge to all HR practitioners across the region.

Here’s the link to get to the show:   CaribHR.Radio Lunchtime Show on October 5th which will start at 11:30 Jamaica time or 12:30 T&T/Miami time.  You can find the show’s page at http://blogtalkradio.com/caribhr-radio2

P.S. The show went quite well, and you can listen to the entire broadcast by clicking on this link:  CaribHR.Radio Test Broadcast Lunchtime Show or on the icon below, or visit www.radio.CaribHRForum.com.
Listen to internet radio with CaribHR.Radio on Blog Talk Radio

Let me know what you thought of the show in the comments.

P.S. The third show will be on Tuesday  November 2nd.  Click on the icon above — we’re going to discuss the article “Why Does Everyone Hate HR?,” and also having interviews with Douglas Orane and Gina Terry.

For a few months, I have been talking about the impact that the most modern tools have had on workplace productivity here in the Caribbean.

(Things have become so crazy that some companies are banning Blackberrys from all executive  meetings.)

I toyed with the idea of what I could do to assist, and finally decided on offering my online programme, MyTimeDesign 1.0.Free, along with a new smartphone module, with a goal to giving every Caribbean employee who does knowledge work the chance to enroll slightly ahead of the global public.

Anyone can register for the programme for free before the due date of August 25th, or before the class is filled.  Click here to see the video I created that describes the programme, and to get more information on how to register.
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