Jim Leff's Slog

I've written a lot about reframing. I've also written a lot about "being" versus "seeming" - aka posing, aka aut...

Leff's Fourth Law ("95% of apparent maliciousness is actually incompetence") turned out to have been observed by Napoleon c...

There was a point when Chowhound had experienced one of its early press blitzes and way more people were coming around than I'd ever pl...

George W Bush was correct: management is primarily about decision-making. Many, many, many decisions. You must be a decision machine, just s...

Here's the most counterintuitive management tenet I know: urging workers to try harder isn't the appropriate recourse when they'...

In my last posting Don't Take it Personally That Nobody Ever Does Anything , I explained why people who join teams and commit to project...

I've been working on an ambitious project with a team. And it's been jarring some deeply repressed memories. I'd forgotten all...

Bad bosses think their employees work for them. They delight in saying "no". Good bosses realize Marx was right about one thing:...

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