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Social networks are no place for control freaks.
Byline: David Tebbutt
Social networks are no place for control freaks
Time to confess. Despite being active in online social networking for several years, recently I have discovered that I'm really a bit of a control freak.
This became evident when I got together with some others to plan the inaugural meeting of the Creative Coffee Club (CCC). The others seemed quite happy to see what happened when a bunch of disparate people met in Foyles' cafA[c] in London. My ideas were different.
Inside organisations, we are all trained to prepare for meetings, to have agendas, objectives, checklists and actions. The theory is to conduct the proceedings as efficiently as possible and have a means of control if things get out of hand.
Accordingly, my thoughts about the CCC were to let people mingle for a while, then tap a glass to attract their attention and make an objectives-type announcement. My colleagues were much too polite to call me mad. They just said: "Hmmm. Not quite what we had in mind."
Let's step back and look at what led to this point.
- Control freaks at Dorset Software appoint Joslin Shaw.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 20, 2000 700+ words
...20 April 2000-Dorset Software: Control freaks at Dorset Software appoint Joslin Shaw...and self confessed project management control freaks, have hired Joslin Shaw, and its...We will brand Dorset Software as control freaks. It`s not that they`re manic...
- CONTROL FREAKS; TIPS ON SPOTTING ONE, COPING WITH ONE AND HOW NOT TO BECOME...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) July 5, 2005 700+ words
...workplace consultant. "The basic rule for control freaks is that they don't trust other people...shower, until things are right." Control freaks are all around us in every facet of...controlling children in preschool and control freaks at the senior center." Gender doesn...
- Control freaks.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Reason Gillespie, Nick February 1, 2004 700+ words
THE THEME OF this issue might be dubbed "control freaks." Several of this month's stories unmask ways in...section of your daily newspaper. How best to counter the control freaks? The stories in this issue are a starting point. Every...
- THOUGH MODERN LIFE IS SPAWNING MORE OF THEM, THERE ARE WAYS TO NEUTRALIZE THOSE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Goodnow, Cecelia June 8, 2000 700+ words
...says psychologist Les Parrott III, who wrote the book on control freaks and admits to some control tendencies himself. There are...we use now to get organized make us feel in control.'' Control freaks victimize themselves as well as others. They risk high...
- Control freaks.(keyboard keys)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Personal Computer World Nott, Tim March 22, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Tim Nott Control freaks Everybody knows that holding down the Control key and pressing C copies the selected text, and most will know a few other Control...
- CONTROL FREAKS SPOIL THE PARTY; Curb on questions will hurt Labour...
- Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) October 11, 2009 700+ words
...rein to ask the three leadership candidates questions at hustings meetings shows the party has not escaped the clutches of control freaks. Thousands of party members from all over Wales will be invited to five closed meetings in different parts of the nation...
- Control freaks or trust in people?
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Anthony Sampson June 16, 1995 700+ words
...tempted to control their business through money, rather than through people. Armed with printouts and spreadsheets, the control-freaks have entered new kingdoms. They can be brilliantly successful in reducing staff, ensuring discipline and maintaining budgets...
- Control freaks.(Gazette Letters)
- Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) August 30, 2003 700+ words
...military knives. Next they went after air rifles. Not having learned anything from the firearms laws fiasco, the same control freaks and hysteria-motivated people tried to get air rifles greatly restricted (preferably banned) from the hands of law...
