{"id":963,"date":"2007-01-28T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/963"},"modified":"2007-05-03T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T10:28:07","slug":"little-did-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/963","title":{"rendered":"Little did I know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I was prepared. I had the box of cereal ready, and I remembered that I had strawberries in the fridge. I casually open the fridge to get the milk…<\/p>\n

horrors! NO MILK!<\/em><\/p>\n

So instead I feasted on some hummus and cheese with chips. For breakfast. haha.<\/p>\n

——————————–<\/center>Interesting topic at lunch today: What motivates people in the workplace?<\/strong> Some would say money, but of course we know that it is so much more than that. And then you take a unique place like the Baha’i World Centre (where I am serving), where people come to serve, not to climb the corporate ladder or start a company.How do we motivate the people around us in the workplace? People usually think of motivation in a “top-down” approach: that is, the upper levels of an organization use incentives of some kind to coax employees to work at a certain level. But what happens when employees take an active role in managing the people they report to? When they explain to their managers how they work best? When working on a team, do we take the time to figure out each other’s styles of project management or personal interaction?
——————————–<\/center>I am now halfway through The Tipping Point<\/a>, started Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/a>, and about 1\/3 of the way through Muhammad and the Course of Islam<\/a>. I am having so much fun reading these books. I think I will want to read the last one a second time, since I feel like I’m getting the story, but not enough to explain to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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