I don’t read the newspaper in my local town every day, I admit. Chances are, if you have workers under 40, they don’t either. Here’s what they missed today: Lead story, page 1: An expose about a local doctor who had sex with two female patients, one relationship spanned 20 years. This was evidently more [...]
Archive for July, 2008
News From the A Section, July 22, 2008.
Posted in July 22nd, 2008
by admin in Work-related
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Truck This! Life on the Road.
Posted in July 21st, 2008
by admin in Work-related
Wayne Weisser is a long haul trucker based out of Las Vegas. He travels all over the US, and blogs about his life on the road, in the truck stop and elsewhere over at Adventures in Trucking. For anyone who wants to learn about trucker’s issues today from expensive gas to deer on the highway…read [...]
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Sales Management Caught On Tape, 1940
Posted in July 19th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
I have sat through more management and sales training DVDs-videos than I care to mention. Yawn. I have even made people sit through some that I was particularly fond of, at that moment in time. Worse yawn. And, I know that you, gentle and kind (and smart) reader, are busy and are not in the [...]
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The Egg and Her, A Family Story
Posted in July 19th, 2008
This is a family story that happened to my cousin Karan about how a small farm habit turned into something bigger and opened up a new world to her. Ask any baby boomer about their family history, and more likely than not, their grandparents or cousins lived on a farm. The ‘family farm’ is almost [...]
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10 Reasons Why Coaching Little League is Great Management Training
Posted in July 18th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
Management is training is coaching and where better to learn than trying to teach a bunch of ten-year-olds how to play baseball. Here is why: 1. You learn that incremental improvements happen slowly. 2. Yelling at them slows the learning way down. 3. Individual coaching improves their skills more rapidly. 4. Positive reinforcement leads to [...]
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Where To Start…
Posted in July 17th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
Ever since he was a kid, Conrad was the smartest kid in the room, but still played well with others. He grew up with a slide rule hanging on his belt, but mostly today it’s all about programming, from T-SQL to .NET, and he applies his wide experiences to solving business problems for his clients. [...]
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Pharma Barbie
Posted in July 17th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
AJ is a pharmaceutical sales rep and travels a square state for a Fortune 500 company, marketing speciality drugs to doctors. For her, sales is an acquired skill, but came naturally for this outgoing former educator who believes in the benefit of the drugs for patients as much as she did in the potential of [...]
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The Star Tribune Won’t Acknowledge JobDig’s LinkUp, But PC Magazine Does
Posted in July 16th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
Getting ink (PR) for a small company is always tough. When you compete with the daily local newspaper, as we do with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, it is nearly impossible. They are a bit sensitive that JobDig is taking market share away with our significantly better value proposition. Which is why when PC Magazine says [...]
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The Contrary Paralegal & What She Does.
Posted in July 16th, 2008
by admin in Work-related
The contrary paralegal manages a two-office law firm in the southwest, as well as her young family, which consists of ‘the man’ and her three ‘dramas’ whose names are 17 (or VT = vile teenager), 11 and 8. For 15 years she has worked in almost every area of the law – seen everything, mentored [...]
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Guest Blogger Series, What Would the Paralegal Say, et al
Posted in July 16th, 2008
At last count, there were about 4,237 specific careers that one could have, from semen collector and and bra tester to being a paralegal and or a pharmaceutical sales rep. For sure, there is a job/career out there for you, a place where you actually dig your job. Trouble is, learning about these specific career [...]
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