How to excel in your first management position
You are no longer a doer of tasks. Now you are a caretaker of business needs. You got this promotion because somebody believes that you can do more than just deliver packets of work. They think you can “manage” and “lead people”. Here’s how to do it.
Understand business needs. Why does your team exist? [...]
Acquired! Day 50
It’s official. I now work for the new company. I even changed my email signature. I am very dissatisfied. To date, they have not presented me with a compensation plan and they have not shed any further light on the stock options they promised earlier. They have, however, switched me over to their insurance [...]
Religion At Work: Are prayers for coworkers ok?
Three of the diciest and most taboo subjects in the workplace are sex, politics and religion. BrandonA took political discussions in the workplace head on, now it’s time for religion. I would like to share a situation I struggled with in regards to religion in the workplace, the advice others gave me [...]
Stop Interrupting Me!: 4 Steps to Learn How to Listen
I’m awful at listening. I always want to be center of attention. I am in a constant struggle with myself because I love to tell stories, give examples, help people understand, or at least give my opinion on most everything. But sometimes it is not the right time to talk, but [...]
The Call of the Entrepreneur : A Clarion Call to Corporate Generation Y
It is not often that you see the uniquely personal and even spiritual aspects of doing business discussed in the same article let alone in a fast paced documentary. However, across the blogosphere we see Gen Yers looking to understand how what they do fits in with who they are in a world that often [...]
“That Isn’t My Job”: How to get ahead by seeing the big picture
Wow how I hate those words! I have very little authority and they still bug me. I was scanning and processing some deliverables today at work preparing them for a client (not in my job description) when I overhead one of the support staff workers complaining about exceeding her job description. Evidently our company [...]
Best of the Web 2007
Here they are. These are the best and brightest web sites out there right now. What do they win? Nothing… but maybe they’ll get a few new visitors when this hits the presses. Check them out, and leave comments!
Netvibes has become my homepage of choice as of late. It competes with iGoogle and PageFlakes [...]
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