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Have you noticed that the business world is a little confused these days? Common sense seems to have left the building with Elvis.

Not that I consider myself the bearer of a lot of common sense. I've often thought my dashboard lights were going out when, in fact, I had just forgotten to take off my sunglasses. I've found myself thinking I can't brush my teeth because the battery in my electric toothbrush is dead. I pretend I'm on the cell phone in my car when I realize people are watching me argue with myself.

But I do know a few things.

I know that common sense used to tell us that we should treat people decently. Now it seems that we have to create legislation to tell us to do that.

I know that common sense has been replaced by buzzwords. I've been 7 habit-ed, 6 sigma-ed, and TQM-ed over the years, and yet I didn't feel any smarter. They've managed me in one minute, hid my cheese, painted my parachute, and threw sharks in my swimming pool, and I just felt angry because I didn't have any cheese left for my "whine & cheese party". And through all of this, it just seemed that they were trying to lead me to visit the place with the 12 steps...

I remember how common sense used to say that working hard and improving ourselves would help us be better people, better employees, better citizens. Now we wait for a performance appraisal and somebody from the training department to tell us that.

And I recall how common sense and decency used to say that we should listen to our conscience in the things we did and said.

If that's not the case anymore, then I want to try some uncommon sense to try to bring those principles back.

And that's what unCommon Sense is all about.

• We'll share ideas to improve ourselves, whether we're trying to move up in our current profession or move out into something completely new. 
• We'll think of ways we can do things more effectively while still being true to the crazy people we are. 
• And most importantly, we'll laugh at all of this, because that old common sense saying of "Laughter is the best medicine" was right on the mark.

Join me, won't you?