Category: On The Job
The Book in a Blog Post: Part 2
Last week I talked about a Dave Ramsey blog where he touches on several of the things i’m writing about. The post is about 5 money problems we didn’t have 50 years ago. The second […]
Loosing Focus
I have a friend who works in finance. She’s got a job that is tremendously detailed. She spends long days, especially during tax time, from before the sun comes up to when the sun goes […]
Overrun by the Amazonians
Apparently driving your employees to self destruct works just as well for your competition. Although the outlook on self publishing seems very rosey, it looks like there is one company who is going to be […]
It was the best of bosses, it was the worst of bosses
An interesting thing about organizational structure. Have you ever noticed that the best bosses are the ones who are doing the same job you are doing, maybe in a slightly different way, at a slightly […]
Bandwidth and the Business
I find it interesting how many professional individual contributors have home based business. They usually say it with pride when they tell you. “Well I have my OWN business” – usually there is emphasis […]
The Taboo Politics of Professionalism.
I got my first big check when selling software hardware solutions.. it was going to be $1200.. except, it wasn’t. It was closer to $800. Not too horrible but it got me thinking about taxes.. […]
You can’t ‘out business’ your competition
One of the greatest fallacies of organizations is the belief that they can out ‘business’ their competition. What do I mean by out business? Well generally it means that their is a belief by management […]
Hemorrhoid Benefits
In part of my research I was struck by the percentages of companies who don’t offer things that should be absolutely common sense and addressed at 100% rate. For example there is one benefit that’s […]
Bad Guy Ego
Some ideas for explaining why the bad guys always seem to win in the professional world.
Burgers, US Salaries, and Chinese Intellectual Property.
Have you ever spoken with someone who works at a retail chain, or a fast food restaurant, about the state of salary? The conversation generally includes something like “Well I’ve been here for five years, […]
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