3 Tips for Staying on Top of Your Side Projects
A blog, a small business, a hobby, a service organization; all of these things result in side projects. We all have them, the projects the we undertake outside of our regular business tasks. They can be fulfilling or they can just drag you down if you don’t manage them correctly. Here are three [...]
Friday Office Humor: A-B Humourous Office Jargon
Suffering from office chair butt? Get up out of your office chair, do some stretching so you do not get office chair hunch, then read some of these funny terms. Don’t forget to forward this list to your cube farm friends who may also need a good Friday laugh. Come back next [...]
Friday Office Humor: Corporate Jargon
Need a translation to typical job advertisement jargon? Here are some corporate jargon terms, translated just for you (and probably authored on a Friday).
COMPETITIVE SALARY: We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.
JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY: We have no time to train you.
CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE: We don’t pay you enough to expect that you’ll [...]
What Sorority Life Taught Me About Business
To the non-Greek, sororities and fraternities may seem like a silly affiliation where members pay for their friends. As a former sorority president and active alumna member of the Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, I strongly disagree. Sorority life taught me many valuable lessons (and paying for friends was not one of them). And while my [...]
Phish Food: Socially Conscience Business
It’s nice when you see a business that knows what to concentrate on. It’s fine when a company wants to be socially and environmentally responsible, but when it becomes your total focus, business can suffer. Ben & Jerry’s figured the formula out. They realized, without profit and happy shareholders, all the social advancements imaginable can’t [...]
Creativity: What to do When You’re Not Inspired.
Are you in a creative career, do you blog, or is there any room for being creative in your job? Some jobs require more creativity than others, that’s a given. In my job if I or a boss decide to get to creative the IRS comes down with a steel fist! [...]
Coffee Break: Should I tip or should I go
A while back I harped about people who don’t tip their barista’s when going after their morning joe. In the Wall Street Journal on Friday there was an interesting column by Eric Felten investigating the history and implications of “the tip.” It appears that the tips we so generously dish-out were once quite [...]
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