HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Management Tip of the Day
Competency: self development
Who benefits: executives, managers, supervisors, professional employees
Consultant Usage: easy way to stay current, pass on tips to clients, use as references to more substantial material
What’s it about? Today’s posting requires almost no work on my part thanks to the good people at Harvard Business [...]
Imagine a starry-eyed young couple gazing at their new baby. The mother turns to the father and says, “Oh John, I hope he grows up to be average.”
Hard to believe, isn’t it? We don’t start out with the idea that we’ll live a fiftieth percentile life. And yet, it happens.
You know the fiftieth percentile people. [...]
“I’m not asleep… but that doesn’t mean I’m awake”
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We know that sleep problems create problems for both employees and organizations. For individuals even a few hours less sleepthan you normally require will contribute to impairment in memory, psychomotor functioning, mood and susceptibility to getting a cold. For organizations, it affects the bottom line in terms [...]
Week of November 2
Most online advertising is performance-based.
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), in the first half of 2009, 58% of all internet advertising dollars was spent on performance-based advertising – search plus other pay-per-click buys. Non-performance based advertising (ie, display ads) tends to be brand or image type [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about becoming a star, moonlighting and creativity, [...]
Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade Extraordinaire, posted a little gem the other day. He literally saves you from reading thousands of books. I probably haven’t read quite as much as he has, but I can vouch for these none-the-less…
Over the last dozen years, I’ve devoured thousands of books on business, leadership, success and lifestyles and learned [...]
The focus of The Cranking Widgets Blog will have much more of an entrepreneurial bent going forward.
I collect companies and business ideas like many productivity lovers collect pens and notebooks. Entrepreneurship is in every fiber of my being. My record is far from spotless, but if I judge my performance against the statistics I’ve beat [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Sikhona
Competencies: listening, interpersonal skills, oral communications,
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: great discussion topic for many types of training and consulting
What’s it about? Let me begin by giving full credit to today’s posting to my friend Joy Hawkins who gave a presentation that weeks later still has me thinking about it.
Forgive me [...]
Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich launched his automate your finances boot camp today. The curriculum is pretty solid. I believe having your personal finances in good shape is the hull of your Entrepreneurship (see what I did there?)
If you are stressing a lot about finances or spending too much time [...]
Today I’d like to continue a discussion I started in my last blog post: “Marketing to the Human Psyche.”
To recap, neural scientists have discovered a link between social needs and survival, a link which could trigger prospects to react to our marketing efforts as if we were a rabid dog.
I know what you’re [...]