Just Wait 'Til The Snow Flies...
Who needs a lawn service when someone actually wants to rake?
Is this a foreshadowing of what it will be like when the first snow flies? If so, Dad is going to have a pretty comfortable winter.
Not everyone pictured above is a YD girl. But all the rakes you see are from our garage. Yes, dad and mom made sure there were plenty of lawn care tools to go around when the girls were young. Perhaps that is how Emily came to start mowing the grass when she was in kindergarten...
posted by Unknown at
6:52 PM
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Work no longer has clear boundaries.
A major factor in the mounting stress level is that the actual nature of our jobs has changed much more dramatically and rapidly than have our training for and our ability to deal with work. In just the last half of the twentieth century, what constituted "work" in the industrialized world was transformed from assembly-line, make-it and move-it kinds of activities to what Peter Drucker has so aptly termed "knowledge work."
In the old days, work was self-evident. Fields were to be plowed, machines tooled, boxes packed, cows milked, widgets cranked. You knew what work had to be done--you could see it. It was clear when the work was finished, or not finished.
Now, for many of us, there are no edges to most of our projects. Most people I know have at least half a dozen things they're trying to achieve right now, and even if they had the rest of their lives to try, they wouldn't be able to finish these to perfection. You're probably faced with the same dilemma...
On another front, the lack of edges can create more work for everyone. Many of today's organizational outcomes require cross-divisional communication, cooperation, and engagement. Our individual office silos are crumbling, and with them is going the luxury of not having to read cc'd e-mails from the marketing department, or from human resources, or from some ad-hoc, deal-with-a-certain-issue committee.
12:53 AM
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