Top 10 Signs That Your Employees Think You Are A Jerk
via BNET…
1. You don’t know the difference between managing and micromanaging:
A good small business owner knows about more than just how to run his or her business and make a profit. Good bosses manage their employees, allowing them to do their jobs the best they can. Jerk bosses try and tell their staff how to do their jobs, down to ridiculous detail. If you spend more of your time on silly minutiae and less on the big picture, your employees probably don’t like working for you.
Follow the link above for the rest of them.
A Challenge to Myself
I couldn’t help but notice that I haven’t been writing a lot in the last year or so.
The truth is that I have been writing but not writing on my personal website nor have I really been doing much tweeting. Due to this observation I have decided to set a short term goal of writing 3 to 5 articles per day for the next week.
Will they be of use? I hope so.
As I make my way through Mac OS X Lion and all of the small issues that are coming up, I should have plenty to write about. (see the post below)
For example…
The first change I made after upgrading to Lion? I reversed the direction of scrolling. Honestly Apple? Really? Getting everyone used to a single direction of scrolling after a few years of everyday use and then deciding to change the direction was a disaster of a decision. Did you try that out on any everyday hardcore users? I’m guessing no.
I have read this morning that you will notice a speed increase after spotlight creates a searchable index file. If your system seems slow after the upgrade just wait a few hours and you should notice an increase in speed.
Three to five articles a day is a lot to someone who works two full time jobs. We’ll see how this goes.
How to Fix Your Skype Mic Problem in Lion
This was one of the first problems I encountered in Lion. The Skype “I want to automatically control your microphone input” problem that we’ve seen before. In the past, we would refer to the following via MacWorld…
Go there and bookmark the page…
The problem in Lion is that your Application Support library under your home directory is missing. Well, it’s not really missing. It’s just hidden from view.
To fix this problem, open up your Terminal (under Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and paste in the following statement and hit return.
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Next, you’ll need to restart your finder. I would recommend just rebooting your computer.
You should now be able to see all hidden files. Now you should be able to disable the automatic gain as instructed above. (I would recommend removing the MicVolume statement all together as it is simply not needed.)
Now when you run Skype you should have complete control of your microphone input level.
The Problems With Lion
Yes. I have upgraded to Mac OS X Lion.I’m a geek. Don’t be silly.
Here is a small list of things that broke when I upgraded.
My timer for recording podcasts. (got a new one)
My seriously old version of Photoshop. (I have a newer version that I’ve been waiting to install)
My recording software as a whole. (I have a backup that I just NOW got to work)
Is it enough to make me regret the upgrade?
Not in your life.
I expected things to break so no surprise there. The operating system is working great for everything else. I love “Mission Control” and think they finally got “Spaces” right.
Waiting for Mac OS X Lion
A quick “Twitter-Style” drive by post to let everyone know what I’m up to. I’m waiting for Apple to release Lion so I can find out how much of my recording equipment will be affected and won’t work.
That’s all. 🙂
Update: (07-16-11)…still waiting…
The Ideal Candidate for President
I agree with Jimmie Bise on this one.
The ideal candidate for President is someone that loves America and it shows. It’s all they talk about. Their position on America’s place in the world is crystal clear and no one who ever hears a speech that they give will doubt that.
The ideal candidate will not attack any other candidate. They will not use phrases such as “well Bob, unlike my friend here, I believe that…” or “that Chuck, boy what a nutcase he is.” You get the idea. This candidate will not have a derogatory thing to say about their opponents because he/she will be focusing on other things, as it should be.
The ideal candidate will outline what our immediate problems are and outline what he/she will do to fix them. Not “pie in the sky” fixes based on a whole bunch of variables that they really have no control over. Instead of saying “the unemployment rate will never get above 8%” the ideal candidate will outline the steps they will do within the perview of the office to affect change.
The ideal candidate will not be big on social media. I would rather have the president tending the daily business of running a country and really don’t care if they tweet about what they had for lunch. Seriously.
The ideal candidate will be wise enough to realize that neither they nor anyone who works with them is smart enough to tell me how to live my life.
The ideal candidate will not tell me what to eat, how to eat, or ban things that I like to eat. It’s none of their business and the ideal candidate is smart enough to know that.
The ideal candidate will not talk about things that he/she doesn’t know.
The ideal candidate will realize that it’s “your” money and act accordingly.
It’s a shame that the ideal candidate no longer exists.
The ideal candidate sounds a lot like Ronald Reagan…
