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Pimp Your Work - Improving Your Work Day Efficiency

February 1st, 2007

Effort tells you about passion

You know how you’re supposed to be passionate about your work, right? Right? Being passionate means you wake up in the morning ready and willing to face the work day; perhaps even really looking forward to the work to be done.
Not all of us are like that, however. For some of us, work is a […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

January 26th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part V

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. It has been a good week with the questions, answers and comments from readers.
Networking is a critical component of today’s work, no matter your position, location, or type of work that you do. I’m really pleased that Jason […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

January 25th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part IV

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. It’s been a good week, too, with some really good answers to the questions.
Here are the questions from the last three sessions:

What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of networking. What […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 24th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part III

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships.
Here are the questions from the last two days:

What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of networking. What are the first action items I should do to start building a network?

Good answers […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

January 23rd, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part II

Yesterday, I started the first in a series of questions with Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. The first question was “What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?”
In today’s edition, we’ll take a look at the second question:
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of […]

By Scot Herrick -- 1 comment

January 22nd, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba — Part I

Jason Alba has spent a LOT of time thinking about looking for a job, trying to find the right one, and how to go about doing it. He got a lot of time to think about it after his board unceremoniously tossed him out of his job just over a year ago.
Instead of just thinking […]

By Scot Herrick -- 8 comments

January 19th, 2007

Strategy and tactics: How to Pimp Your Work

This past week, I’ve written about the characteristics of successful strategies, tactics and that execution is the key to success of a strategy.
Business oriented.
But there is another key to strategy and tactics: how can you Pimp Your Work using these same successful characteristics of strategy and tactics? Just because the principles outlined here apply to […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 16th, 2007

Goals: Uncomplicated

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all those New Year work goals? After all, there is this long process for goal setting, especially in large corporations. The goals need to be figured out by the business and then cascaded to the next level of management and then to the next level of management and then to […]

By Scot Herrick -- 6 comments

January 11th, 2007

Mission Statements: Five Better Questions

Subscribing to blogs is a wonderful thing (that’s what that big orange box is at the top right of this blog is all about). I’m catching up on my reading from the holidays and ran across this great post about returning to work in 2007 and still be faced with the same old…well…same old stuff.
Mike […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 10th, 2007

Indifference is as Important as Passion

Here’s my confession: I have a love-hate affair with the word “passion.”
As in “find your passion.” Or doing what you love (passion) and the money will follow. Or even great new media companies wanting to see passion in your work (I didn’t really write that, b5media…really…).
I’ve gone through iterations with passion:

passion as an emotion that […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments