Five more books to give away GONE!
Psst. If you missed the earlier opportunity to score an advance copy of David Lorenzo’s Career Intensity, here’s another chance. I’ve got five more to distribute. Same rules as before: leave a comment with your favorite “slacker-style” career advancement tip, or your best general-purpose “do less, get more done” tip. First five non-duplicates get a book shipped to their front door. Don’t leave your address in the comment, just a working email–I’ll get in touch with you!
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Five more books to give awayGONE!Benjamin Kudria
Feb 20, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Free book? Easy:
Open word, create a document , maybe lines.doc, and put 7-8 horizontal rules at the bottom. If you know how to print on envelopes, set up a template that puts lines on the envelope. Then, buy a bunch of envelopes (cheaper is better, here), print the lines on them, and clip the corners, so you have a right triangle:
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Sorry for the bad ascii art. :)
Then, take these corners, and slip them on to the corners of the pages of books you want to mark up. Like post-it notes without the mess and stickiness, and you don’t have to actually write (oh, the horror!) on your book. Great for Bibles and borrowed books.
-Benjamin Kudria
Thomas Swift
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:10 pm
When talking with your boss just let them keep talking, and if you run out of work stuff to talk about lead them on about thier personal life, vacations, etc. Anything to get them to continue talking about themselves
Usually, they like to talk about themselves.
I have done this before and my reasons were simple.
1. It wastes time, sometimes a good hour.
You may want to avoid this around deadline time.
Amy
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Before entering an office that is known as a black hole or time trap, set an alarm on your Palm Pilot. Five minutes after starting the conversation, your Palm Pilot announces an upcoming appointment or meeting.
Oh no! Guess you’ve got to run.
Nerio
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:20 pm
I used to save a lot of time in weekly meetings by asking participants to come prepared with a 1-page format divided into 4 quadrants.
Quadrant 1 would be “achievement vs. target agreed”. Quadrant 2 would be “reasons for any deviations”. Quadrant 3 would be “next week’s planned achievements”. Quadrant 4 would be for “any help required from me”. This way everyone would stick to what is relevant and meetings would be short.
Robin
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Arrive at work 30 minutes earlier than you usually do, and if you have an office door, close it.
The amount of work you’re able to get done first thing in the morning, with no distractions is amazing.
This is an excellent time to get a head start on the day’s email, and gets you geared up for the day.
Bren
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Geez that was fast. Thanks everybody!
Chuck
Mar 1, 2006 at 11:35 am
if books are gone, well too bad for me…I shoulda been slackin’ and got to the site sooner !
my tip:
it is a good idea to ask your busy contact / prospect to meet apprx 10:30a plus or minus a few minutes…that way it is a natural to get them out of the office for a lunch…where it is better to talk anyway…besides, at this informal meeting you will come much closer to them than otherwise possible…and since the company’s buying, you get a free lunch to boot!