If you're in an unfulfilling job or are dissatisfied with your work, it's possible to get a fresh start no matter what the season. In fact, there are a few strategies that can help you find meaning and enhance your experience even as you slog forward. A lack of fulfillment in your job can have intense effects. It can derail your motivation, your energy, and even your performance.
The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. My main concern is that as soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, that their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates. This means we will have to invent better motivations for people to work at all. I can't see this kind of work-people as operators-excites anyone. Why would they work at all, then?
Whether they're colleagues, clients, or customers, you're sure to encounter difficult people at work. It might be someone who hinders productivity, rubs you the wrong way, makes you upset, or is simply annoying. When we encounter difficult people, we immediately form an explanation for why they are this way. We create these "stories" without conscious thought. Think about a difficult person with whom you work.