In the days of incandescent bulbs, instant-on brilliance was a good analogy for an idea. Since the introduction of compact fluorescent curly thingys, we have the luxury of a slower start-up and it may be several days before everything lights up in that cloud over my head. Looking over my notes from two days of #truBoston it became clear that I had spent way too much time learning stuff instead of making a record of… Read More »Un-notes From #truBoston
I need to go back and re-read the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff†because in the heat of the moment any amount of small stuff can take over my thinking, my language and my behavior. Even if overreaction to a minor event causes temporary insanity (hopefully only temporary) pausing to do a post mortem can be useful to ferret out lessons learned. The Comcast internet outage yesterday in my area was probably such a… Read More »Live By The Internet, Die By The Internet
Wisdom is not a characteristic of age. Knowledge is not a measure of education. Solutions to problems are not found by intuition. We accept these generalizations as true although we sometimes act otherwise. To a certain degree, experience gained along with seniority is to be respected, educated people have been trained to think at a higher level, some things are intuitively correct, however in business we cannot assume this to be true without some sort… Read More »Organizational Problem Solving
Congratulations on surviving the interview. Unless yours is one of the rare cases where everything falls into place on the first try, this wasn’t your first interview and it may not be your last. Hopefully, thinking like a recruiter gave you an edge over those who remained in the rut of thinking only about their own agenda regardless of the consequences. But now you are faced with the age old question about how to build… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 10
The media hype about the new release in theaters this week kept teasing us that “Horrible Bosses†was going to be a funny adaptation of three guys all trapped in jobs with truly evil bosses. Newspaper coverage promoted it as a good time movie in spite of the fact that in most real life situations people usually don’t plan to kill their bad bosses. Early reviews were good. I saw an interview with Jennifer Anniston… Read More »Horrible Bosses In The Movie and Real Life