Part of the fun of doing this is to read and share notes and ideas with people you would never, ever in a million years, meet. Before I started reading [tag]Dr. Ellen Weber[/tag]‘s blog Brain Based Business, I pretty much never thought about my own brain at all, except for those painful ten seconds when [...]

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Have you ever heard someone say “well, if it doesn’t work out, I can always go back to my old job”? Over at [tag]JobMob[/tag], I guest-blogged about whether that attitude makes any sense. Here’s a quote: “Most companies will NOT hire you back if, say, you give the new job a try and find out [...]

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Dr. Ellen Weber, PhD, asked me to write a guest blog on her wildly popular BRAIN BASED BUSINESS.  More than I do normally, I actually thought about what I wanted to say, since so many non-WWDS readers would be reading me for the first time.  But then I thought a second time and re considered.  [...]

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OK, a bit dramatic. Last week, I read [tag]Dan Pink[/tag]‘s newest book, [tag]The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, the Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need[/tag], over lunch. It is a clever little book with six simple and perhaps counter-intuitive ‘learnings’ about one’s career. What is great about this book is it is usable (readable) for today’s [...]

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  What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “[tag]Yogi Berra[/tag].” Admit it–it was most definitely NOT that he was perhaps the greatest catcher in baseball history, or that he held baseball records for almost thirty years, but you thought of all his famous quotes.   They are even called by their own [...]

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Everyday we get emails from our friends. If you are like me, some you open, but mostly you just hit delete. After all, we have seen the hamster going in circles, the pyramid of cheerleaders falling and the latest crude joke. Many, many times. Here are [tag]10 cut and paste emails you can use to [...]

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(How to get this badge for your blog.) I am being told today that this blog just passed the million (1,000,000) hits barrier. It sounds like a lot. Hits are great, but not as good as the fact that nearly 400,000 people have read this blog. Amazing. I am humbly kicking the dirt under my [...]

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Smart advertisers are making use of almost any media today. We have seen ads on parking lot barriers, airline barf bags and at the bottom of escalators. No space is ignored by advertisers,–street lamps, manhole covers. For a delightful time, visit Bored.com/billboards here. If you have ever walked around in a big city, you have [...]

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We have more bullies at school than ever, I am told. Some teachers report that bullies have more impact on student test scores than almost any other single factor.  At some schools, it is considered “not cool” to do well on tests. If it is true at school, it is true at work, too.  As [...]

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[tag]Nancy Rica Schiff [/tag]has graciously allowed us to use ten of her photographs from [tag]ODD JOBS[/tag] and [tag]ODDER JOBS[/tag], two classics published by [tag]Ten Speed Press[/tag], which also publishes What Color is Your Parachute, by [tag]Dick Bolles[/tag]. Enjoy. [tag]Condom tester[/tag] [tag]Bra designer[/tag] [tag]Artificial inseminator[/tag] [tag]dog food tester. [tag] fish doctor[/tag] [tag] men’s underwear designer[/tag]

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