Category Archives: Job knowledge

A cattle dog never says “That’s not my job!”

By Jim Pirner | January 10, 2009

A family here has an Australian Cattle Dog.  You know the breed–diligent hard-working energetic herders who must always “have a job.”  Doggie lore says one cattle dog lived to be more than 29(!) years and spent 20 of them working. Over the recent holiday the visitors included four cats and the CATtle dog quickly realized [...]

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The Time When “Fluffy” Floated In

By Jenny Fisher | September 4, 2008

I found myself recalling a morning a few years ago when one of my employees, a woman, walked into my office and asked me a rather direct question about a new vice-president in our company’s marketing  organization.  “Is she just fluffy?” I waited to take in all that the woman might mean by that word [...]

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