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Don’t be Naive: Don’t Complain About Your Boss
Do you have a bad, incompetent boss? Are you compelled to tell the higher ups about your situation? If you do tell your boss’s boss, are there any ramifications for you? Will “management” really do “something” about your bad boss? Don’t fall into the trap that once did, by mistakenly informing the higher ups that [...]
Read more →The 12 Keys to Success
What drives you to be successful? Are you motivated by the meaning of work or the perk? After reading Gerhard Gschwandtner’s article on the twelve keys to success in Selling Power, I learned new keys that I have never considered. Unfortunately, Gschwandtner’s editorial isn’t available online. I’ve outline his success principles with my additional commentary: [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: 1st Work Call on Sales & Marketing Plan for VAR
July 11, 2005 My first project as Director of Marketing is for a channel partner or VAR of Tom’s company. A VAR (value-added reseller) is a company that takes an existing product, adds its own “value†usually in the form of a specific application for the product (for example, a special computer application), and resells [...]
Read more →6 Tips on Meeting Management
Meeting management is an art form. It’s also a political skill that you must learn, if you want to move up the ladder. Ram Charan writes a column on Yahoo! Finance called “What Every Company Should Know.†His article “The Key to Worthwhile Business Meetings†outlines five tips effective meetings. According to Charan, the right [...]
Read more →3 Tips to Recover From Your Dumbest Moment at Work
We’ve all done it once, maybe twice. We’ve done something dumb at work that compromises our peer’s or bosses confidence in us. But how do we bounce back? How do we move forward, after making a mistake? “How to Recover From Your Dumbest Moment at Work†by Anne Fisher, CNNMoney.com offers three tips on how [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: It’s Done, CEO Offers the Job
July 9, 2005 It’s done. After first finding out about the job lead on June 7, Tom finally offered me the Director of Marketing position and provided a compensation plan. During our second meeting, as part of our negotiations, he agreed to two things: (1) the vacation time that I needed for work-life tradeoffs; and [...]
Read more →What Would You Do with a Clean Slate?
What would you do, if you could start your career over? What you do with a clean slate, a tabula rasa, or a young mind not yet affected by your older self’s experience? Would you take a different career path? Would you take the same one, but tweak the experiences? Do nothing? I know I [...]
Read more →Colin Powell’s 12 Leadership Lessons
When Colin Powell isn’t taking on the right wing Republicans or Dick Cheney, Powell uses his leadership and diplomacy skills to improve the United States’ image on foreign policy. On the side, he’s also insisting that the Republican Party must be more inclusive and mainstream to remain viable in the future. Watching, listening, or reading [...]
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