Archive for October, 2008
Happy Halloween. (be safe out there)
Confused About Social Media or Worse, Ignoring It?
It’s late in 2008, and I am not saying that you have to use the social media tools. Many don’t, preferring instead to use the traditional media–like the telex machine and rotary phones. Me? I have been a slow adopter myself…it was my grandfather, remember, who said ‘sliced bread would never catch on because it [...]
A Halloween Event and a Real Good Mess
Yesterday afternoon we kicked off our United Way campaign. Our company won’t donate much, mostly because we are a group between the ages of 22-27. School loans, car payments and credit cards consume most of what our folks earn. Still. Most charitable organizations think of us folks at the upper end of seniority and paygrades [...]
A Message to HR Departments Everywhere
My friend Dick Bolles suggests that hiring managers get out of the office and become a jobseeker for a day. If you do, you will most likely find just how different your company looks from their side of the desk. It is a target-rich environment for HR and hiring departments today. You should expect some [...]
Fact or Crap?
It’s not enough that it’s political season but with the turible-turible (Norwegian accent here) financial mess dominating the news on top of it all, it is getting harder and harder to sort out fact from crap. Just to help, here are few facts from my viewpoint: 1. For every internet idea that catches fire and [...]
Everyone Is Watching You
It is axiomatic that the more advanced your career, the more that people look to you for advice, counsel, leadership and more. That is pretty much a standard reality for most managers and leaders today. What is less known is this actually occurs most often down deep at every level in a company. Every day, [...]
Balance at Work
Much has been written about the need for us all to be balanced in our lives, neither too cold or too hot, as Goldilocks famously said. I have always believed that one should try to do well in every part of your life: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially. Since it is especially hard these days [...]
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Boss Day Tomorrow, October 16th, Let’s Celebrate!
Thanks to Liz at US NEWS, I am now aware that bosses have days. I was unaware, completely in the dark and clueless about this fact, ignorant even. I used to kid Joyce, the best assistant like-ever, that her Secretary’s Day seemed like it came around more’n once a year. On Secretary’s Day I used [...]
What To Do When You Are Experiencing Days Like This.
Don’t listen to Katie Couric, Charles Gibson or Brian Williams. Have you ever heard such negative predictions and forecasts? Just remember they are seldom right and that they live in the land of bad news, getting worse. Last I knew oil was on the way to $200 per barrel, and companies like Costco would not [...]
