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Paul Hobin

Oct 19
3 min

Know When To Quit

Is your keeping you from the one you should be doing? We need to be open to knowing when it’s time to quit.

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Paul Hobin

May 5, 2019
10 min

The Fallacy of Overhead "Liabilities"

We can be a liability, a burden, people that others must carry. Or we can be assets, driving changes that improve performance.

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"Transactional" Roles Are Dead (And Have Been For 20 Years)

Paul Hobin

Jul 5, 2018
5 min

"Transactional" Roles Are Dead (And Have Been For 20 Years)

Viewing roles as transactional is an obsolete way of thinking based on a 1960s view of how the corporate administrative machine should work.

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Challenged by Employee Engagement? That's Not What You Hired Them For (Among Other Problems)

Paul Hobin

Mar 30, 2018
8 min

Challenged by Employee Engagement? That's Not What You Hired Them For (Among Other Problems)

Looking around my department I saw the usual blasé attitude about engagement from many of my colleagues. Work was……well, work.

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The Christmas Gift: Smart-A** Quip; Deep Ideology

Paul Hobin

Jan 8, 2018
4 min

The Christmas Gift: Smart-A** Quip; Deep Ideology

We often say things on T-shirts and bumper stickers that are very close to our hearts and actually very important.

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Paul Hobin

Dec 24, 2017
2 min

On Firing

Lack of firing is not a sign of a good workplace, nor ironically is it even an indicator of job security.

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Paul Hobin

Nov 7, 2017
2 min

Opinion: The "Side Hustle" Is Bull

I’m tired of people writing about the “side hustle” as if it were an entrepreneurial gold mine and not having two jobs in order to survive.

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Administration with Passion

by Paul Hobin

Admin Mission

Know When To Quit

The Fallacy of Overhead "Liabilities"

"Transactional" Roles Are Dead (And Have Been For 20 Years)

Challenged by Employee Engagement? That's Not What You Hired Them For (Among Other Problems)

The Christmas Gift: Smart-A** Quip; Deep Ideology

On Firing

Opinion: The "Side Hustle" Is Bull