February 9th, 2007
True story: I’m walking down the street between two of my company’s locations and run into a coworker. In the middle of the crosswalk, walking in opposite directions, he shouts out to me:
“Did anything happen in your environment this week?”
Thinking about it for a second, I responded, “No, everything was OK for me.”
In corporate speak, […]
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February 8th, 2007
Our very own Ben Yoskovitz started a sensation yesterday with his post Top 10 Reasons Proposals Fail on his Instigator blog. It made the front page of Digg (causing his servers to crash not once, but twice) and has now been featured on LifeHacker.
If you’re in a business where your proposals make or break your bottom […]
By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments
February 8th, 2007
What’s your passion? How easy is it to work your passion in Corporate-land?
I was at dinner talking to a friend and commenting about how difficult it is to work your passion, yet stay dispassionate about your employer.
Your employer, after all, doesn’t care about your passion. Only you do. One of the nice things about being […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 6th, 2007
When you think of creativity in your work, do you think creativity means being able to come up with anything to solve a problem?
One of the more interesting concepts about creativity is that creativity doesn’t work real well when you can, in fact, come up with anything to solve a problem.
There is a principle of […]
By Scot Herrick -- 3 comments
January 26th, 2007
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
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 […]
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January 24th, 2007
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
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
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
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 […]
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