*Cartoon by Andy Singer
Success. It means many things to different people.
A man lives in a small farmhouse with his wife and two kids. He spends his days on the field, and his nights reading to his kids. Is he successful?
How about a young stockbroker with a six-figure income who doesn’t have savings […]
Face it - at least once in your life, you’ll lose. The Pros team lost last week’s b5 media Apprentice Challenge. While this contest is done in the spirit of fun, real life losses are much harder to cope with, whether it’s a loss of an important client, an unapproved project, or a boss’ […]
You’re standing in the boardroom, giving a presentation and you think you’re doing well. You used great graphics, your ideas are brilliant, etc. But all your boss could manage is an indecipherable poker face or a smirk. Maybe she doesn’t like your ideas. Maybe she was bored. Or maybe she didn’t get it.
Or maybe she […]
1. Be obvious that you’re after her job. The best way to do this is to go to work very early in the morning and sit in the boss’ chair. When she arrives, she’ll be surprised to find you there. Tell her you’re merely “practicing” for when you get her job. […]
I attended a pretty significant boardroom meeting today and was appalled when I realized that no one was taking down the minutes! So I immediately took initiative to write things down.
Why? Because minutes are good for the following things:
As a legal document. For the IRS and other government agencies, meeting minutes can be considered as […]
There’s a task - a presentation, a report, it doesn’t matter - and no one wants to do it because it looks tough. You were stuck with the job. Surprisingly, because of your unique badass skills, you managed to finish the job in an hour without breaking a sweat. Do you:
a) Tell […]
Over at Property Crossroads, Dan Rafter made an interesting post about how more people want access to public transportation. People want communities that are planned in such a way that they can easily commute. Now, I live in a 3rd world country where commuting is akin to riding a bus to hell because […]
Bob Turek of Project Management 411 made an excellent post about working together. Naturally, this inspired me to write my own post about how NOT to work together.
Keep everything to yourself. You want to know why? Because everyone will steal your super genius ideas. Dont’ share anything. If you’re making a group presentation, just tell […]
Everyone needs to suck up at least once in their lives, whether you’re trying to sell the big idea or attempting to get away with murder (I hope not literally though). However, sucking up isn’t for the uninitiated - you have to know the right way to do it or else you’ll, well, look like […]
Doing a little testing here for the tech crew at b5. We’ve got some kick-ass coders and server admins at b5 who work to keep the lights on here. They’re using PYW here as a test bed for some upcoming code changes, and asked me to test ‘er out. Which then reminded […]
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