How to Confront your Boss About A Vacation
Everyone who has had a job has at one point, asked for time off. Its inevitable. As much as our employer wishes our job was our only goal in life, it isn’t. I’ve always been proud of how hard the people of the United States work, so here are some comparative stats:
United States: 1824 hours per [...]
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
This post is a guest review by my brother Zachary Henak, of the book The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. It is one of the books suggested in the original post 15 Books for Rogue Professionals and How to Read them Fast at No Cost.
Let’s [...]
Understanding the Financial Crisis and the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout
I have finally found a simple and easy-to-understand explanation of the global financial crisis. The popular NPR radio program This American Life has done two episodes on the topic. They are, by far, the most clear reporting I have found on this issue. They assume no level of financial knowledge. They cover everything from commercial [...]
10 Ways To Know If You’ve Got A Healthy Professional Network
Whenever the economy gets shaky, it’s a good idea to revisit the makeup of your professional network. This is true for two reasons. First, you might get canned. Down economic times lead lots of companies to lay people off, so you better be ready. Second, you might get promoted. As the underperformers get cut loose, you may [...]
5 Ways the Economic Downturn Could Help You
As much over-hyped doom and gloom as there is in the blogosphere and the mainstream media right now, I would like to highlight a few examples of a silver lining in the dark storm cloud that is our current bear market. Generation Y needs to stay positive, as we always do, and focus on these [...]
Lessons in Customer Service
“The customer is always right.”
Sound familiar? Anyone who has ever worked in sales has heard this adage. Making the customer feel like they are right is great customer service. If you’re like me, and have over ten years of sales experience, you know the customer is not always right. Sometimes they are completely wrong, slightly misguided [...]
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