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Category: Lessons Learned

A series of essays on lessons learned while marching through life, developing a career, solving problems and getting along with people.

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Diagnosing DOGE: Purge of the Probies

Posted on February 28, 2025May 21, 2025 by Eric Niewoehner

Who are the probationary workers that were fired? Why? And why are they being hired back? I have been laid-off only once in my professional career. It was no surprise. I was a grain trader for a large Midwest cooperative and they had decided to close down the grain division. So I saw this was…

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Diagnosing DOGE: Bullet Points

Posted on February 27, 2025May 21, 2025 by Eric Niewoehner

What is a retired federal employee’s take on the request from DOGE to submit five bullet points? The Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently stirred up considerable controversy when it used the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send e-mails to all government employees demanding that they list five things they accomplished during the week….

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Age Discrimination in the IT World

Posted on March 19, 2024January 28, 2025 by Eric Niewoehner

Few of us knowingly discriminate against “old” people. But it is out there. It is often quite subtle. The IT World has peculiar ways of discriminating.

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The Professional Ethic

Posted on January 8, 2024February 12, 2025 by Eric Niewoehner

What are the transcendent values that compose the “professional ethic?”

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The Emphasis Rule

Posted on April 4, 2023February 25, 2024 by Eric Niewoehner

As professionals, we need to learn how to manage our time and how to focus on the primary objectives of our job. As managers, however, you can help your staff excel by encouraging them to set annual goals, and choose one thing they hope to improve upon. Applying the Emphasis Rule, you can help them apportion time appropriately, partner with mentors and plan for their educa

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