Your manager just walked into your office and said:
“Today’s your lucky day. You have $1000 to spend on your team, however you want to. Come back to me by lunch time with your list of items and we’ll buy whatever’s on the list, as long as it doesn’t exceed $1000 total.”
What would you buy?
A good […]
Whack Revisited
by David Zinger
It is only fitting that we have a whacky Management Zinger for our 13th entry into this feature.
Guy Kawasaki had an interview with Roger von Oech about creativity based on the 25th anniversary of Roger’s quintessential classic creativity book: Whack on the Side of the Head. I have used this book off an […]
Looking to unleash the Wow Factor in your business? If you’re managing people, you need more Wow and less Bleh so you can get even greater results from those around you, and from you!
How can you do it? Start by admitting you can’t do it alone, and that it’s a team game. The more […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love fun at work I just resent when someone says we must have FUN at work. This is when I feel like one of Michael Scott’s (NBC television show The Office) employees who are coerced into engaging in FUNtivities.
My Master’s thesis was on humor in counseling. Humor and playfulness are my top signature […]
September 1, 2007
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Before you think I have become date-disoriented take the next 2 minutes to think outside of the calendar.
I know, you normally think of New Year’s Day being January 1st. According to the calendar it is January 1st but if you go to school, you teach school, have had a long summer vacation, […]
Every so often we’re called upon to do truly creative work. I’m not referring to watercolors or pastels but rather that work that takes us out of our comfort zone and into an area of improvisational thinking to come up with solutions, ideas, or as Gallagher often says, “totally new concepts!” (If you’re […]
Dick Bolles is very well known for his annual book: What Color is Your Parachute? This is probably the best known book on job hunting and career change.
I love the image of a parachute gently helping you land a job or a new career yet most job hunters and career changers I know don’t feel like […]
I’ve been remiss in whipping up this review. I’ve been reading a crazy hodgepodge assortment of books lately, only some are business-related, and I forgot to post this one. Which is a bummer because I could’ve convinced you to read it a couple of months ago.
I loved Berkun’s last book, The Art of Project Management, […]
Aside from the questionable practice of hooking into another product’s name to promote your own business, TwitterLit (and here) is one of the coolest Twitter uses I’ve seen. Twice a day, this person posts the first line of a book to Twitter, with an affiliate link to the book on Amazon. The site describes it […]
Via 2million I ran into this campaign for a 5 day weekend. Two good days of work and five days off. I think this is a cause I can believe in!
Looks like most of their rallies (The Work Less Express) are taking place on the east coast because the movement started in Asheville, NC. I’ve […]
Just learned that MindMeister (web-based mindmapping app) is out of beta testing and ready for everyone!
Aside from the original analog method of mindmapping (paper and pencil), this is probably the best way to ease into a good understanding of the power of mindmaps. For those of us who are a little more experienced with mindmapping, […]
I’m not much of an IM guy, but lately I’ve been kinda digging it. Twitter has helped, but I’ve been finding IM to be really handy for quick check-ins and questions that aren’t too bothersome. Also, I will admit that it can turn into a bit of a timesink if you let it.
I learned a […]
I’m totally on the GTD prowl right now. I hath fully fallen from the vaunted GTD wagon in recent days and it is taking a toll on me. Unread emails: 146 from as far back as three weeks ago; an unknown number of dropped commitments given verbally; projects that have stalled or never started; a […]
My friend Lisa Haneberg has a new book out (haven’t read it yet, but look for the review soon). To help promote the book she’s riding her motorcycle, Purple Haze, across the country and back. What a great trip that’ll be! You can check out her tour dates here. Lisa also made this neat […]
I will freely admit to you right here, right now, that I’ve been very relaxed…inconsistent, even…about reading my pile of RSS feeds. I think I have too many of them and I get frightened when I fire up Google Reader and see “100+” next to every category folder. Ugh. So the result is that I […]
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