What do you do with your ideas? How do you get them traction? It used to be you made a sales pitch – to venture capitalists, to customers, to your boss. But today young people are deconstructing the sales pitch – paring it down to its core information and parodying the BS that surrounds it. […]
On my last post, where the comments are especially good, Diana wrote that delegating has always been hard for her and she asked how a manager can overcome the following problem: “If the people I was managing didn’t know what I was doing that was more important than what I was delegating for them to […]
I am a huge fan of delegating. Part of what makes me good is that I love time management advice, and I’m constantly asking myself what is most important to me. I keep my list to about five things, and everything else is fair game for delegation. Also, I am lucky to have many traits […]
Who you hang out with has so much to do with the quality of your life. I think about this all the time, so I was happy to see that the neurobiologists finally came up with some evidence that if you hang out with positive people, your brain actually starts thinking more positively (subscription soon). […]
There are lots of rules for running a good meeting — always have an agenda, start on time, make sure no one is hungry. But this rule is more important than all others: Be a cheerleader for your objectives. When you run a meeting you have an objective and you are trying to convince everyone […]
My Chinese radar really perked up last week when I read the Economist article about Alibaba. This Chinese company is the largest online business-to-business marketplace in the world, and it just purchased Yahoo! China, which makes Alibaba the12th most popular site in the world. I checked out the site right away, and, guess what? It […]
I was checking out the information about the upcoming conference Office 2.0. I wanted to get a sense of what the future workplace would look like. There’s not much information there, but I got a bit from the list of speakers: 1. There are two links next to every speaker name: blog, and profile. If […]
Are you worried that you have no idea what you’re doing with your life? A lot of how you feel about yourself stems from how you look at the world. For example, instead of worrying that you are not on a track, consider that the tracks are not viable. It’s a hard mental shift that […]
Here’s some career advice I’m sick of reading: “Don’t have typos in your resume.” If you need to read that advice to know you shouldn’t have typos in your resume then you are unemployable. My friend Ben pointed out that when Colin Powell resigned, he typed his own letter at his home computer to keep […]
At some point in their work life most people start wondering about the bigger questions: How can you support yourself with enjoyable work and still make the world a better place? I have had discussions about this topic with my husband. He was working at a grassroots agency that struggles to save people from poverty […]