A Little Updating in Celebration of 2 Million Page Views at Work Matters

About a month ago, Work Matters passed 2 million page views  (2062928 at the moment).  I did my first post in mid-2006 and am now up to 1108 total posts, which have generated 5217 comments.  And since I started this blog, it has averaged 995.14 pageviews per day.  I have threatened to stop blogging at times, and there are periods where I post nothing for weeks at a time.  But I still enjoy writing it and especially love when people write smart comments -- I was rather amazed, for example, by the number of great responses to my call for a useful and simple performance evaluation form last week.

Passing the 2 million mark also motivated me to do a little house cleaning.  If you look at the columns that surround this post, you will see that I cut my old list of "17 Things I Believe" to "12 Things I Believe."  I also moved down my list of top posts on Good Boss, Bad Boss and replaced it with a list of "12 Posts The People Like."  Here they are:

My Main Focus for 2012: Still Scaling-Up Excellence
Taking The Path of Most Resistance: The Virtues
Doonesbury Slaps Donald Trump With The No Asshole Rule
Tips for Surviving Workplace Assholes
ARSE Test (Asshole Rating Self-Exam) Completed by Over 300,000
Kurt Vonnegut and The No Asshole Rule
Inside Apple: Adam Lashinsky's Revealing and Well-Crafted Book
How Evidence-Based Management Pays Off -- New York Times
Pixar Lore: The Day Our Bosses Saved Our Jobs
Bad is Stronger than Good
Good Boss, Bad Times Video at the McKinsey Quarterly
12 Things Good Bosses Believe

I didn't pick the most popular, although all were popular. I picked the ones that people seem to become most worked about and that meant the most to me.   If you have suggestions about posts that I might add or subtract on this list -- or onthe updated "12 Things I Believe" I would love to hear them.

Once again, thanks to all of you for reading and supporting Work Matters over the years. Your comments, kind words, and yes, critiques, mean a lot to me and provoke me -- and our readers -- to think in more interesting and nuanced ways.