http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-337 Anonymous Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:16:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-337 Managers play a key role in employee morale, especially bad ones! Jerome Alexander spells this out clearly in his book "160 Degrees of Deviation" Alexander writes from both an employee as well as a middle manager's perspective. Don't forget that managers are employees too! This is an introspective view of the corporate structure that all too often loses track of incompetent and bad middle managers. A quick read with some real life stories. Lot's cynical humor here too! Managers play a key role in employee morale, especially bad ones! Jerome Alexander spells this out clearly in his book “160 Degrees of Deviation” Alexander writes from both an employee as well as a middle manager’s perspective. Don’t forget that managers are employees too! This is an introspective view of the corporate structure that all too often loses track of incompetent and bad middle managers. A quick read with some real life stories. Lot’s cynical humor here too!

]]> http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-336 Anonymous Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:26:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-336 Thanks for the link, it's interesting that I find the pain much easier to deal with than the fatigue and concentration, I guess in my line of work concentration is all. Thanks for the link, it’s interesting that I find the pain much easier to deal with than the fatigue and concentration, I guess in my line of work concentration is all.

]]> http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-335 Anonymous Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:05:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/11/26/morale-thats-an-employee-issue/#comment-335 I admire your positive, constructive way of dealing with the pain of arthritis. Did you ever read about Norman Cousins and the way he approached it? There's some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins, including this: Cousins developed a recovery program incorporating megadoses of Vitamin C, along with a positive attitude, love, faith, hope, and laughter induced by Marx Brothers films. "I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep," he reported. "When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off, we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently, it would lead to another pain-free interval." I admire your positive, constructive way of dealing with the pain of arthritis.
Did you ever read about Norman Cousins and the way he approached it? There’s some info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins, including this:
Cousins developed a recovery program incorporating megadoses of Vitamin C, along with a positive attitude, love, faith, hope, and laughter induced by Marx Brothers films. “I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep,” he reported. “When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off, we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently, it would lead to another pain-free interval.”

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