Corporate life is rather glum when you think about it. You spend most of your day inside four walls, usually containing a cube that is roughly 20 square feet (4X5). You spend your time in this box staring at a computer, talking on the phone and/or writing on paper or your whiteboard. While there are [...]
This was a recent status on my Facebook page:
Day of discovery:
1) Sleep is important
2) You never know what you are going to end up with at the company gift exchange
3) Running in the cold is very motivating
4) Never venture downtown during the holidays unless driving a Sherman tank
5) Customers will tell you what you niche [...]
Immersion is the concept of surrounding yourself with a given subject to concentrate on learning it.
The GOOD
The good is that immersion is a very efficient way of learning something. You can jam pack a lot of information in a very narrow window of time. Picking up the basics of a new language or skill is [...]
Collaboration. It is a powerful word.
Cities are built on Collaboration.
Business rely on Collaboration.
The future of your career depends on Collaboration.
According to Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, some of the most intelligent people go untapped because of their isolation. It seems the truly successful outliers were well connected with those that helped them take the steps toward world [...]
Now that the bonsai plant has survived it’s first full week in my cube, I am taking inspiration from it to a new level. While I can’t reupolster the fabric on the cubicle walls, nor can I reconfigure the layout, I can start adding as many tasteful decorative objects as I feel necessary.
Taking further inspiration [...]
Starbucks is certainly a company that knows how to sell coffee. Heck, it was Starbucks that helped save us from the percolated Folger’s of yester-year. They even saved us from those coffee crystals that our grandparents swore by for years.
That is why many people are having a hard time with Starbucks’ new VIA Ready Brew instant [...]
Today, I bought a bonsai plant for my cubicle at work. After writing Components of a Comfortable Office, I decided it was time to act and make my dreary tan and white cubicle at work a little nicer of a place to spend countless hours staring at my computer.
The first thing I did was clear [...]
Every now and then we all have one of those days where we are always one step behind the world. No matter how positive of an attitude we have, everything takes longer than it should, requires more effort than it should, and wears us down until there is nothing left.
Even when there is nothing left [...]
As I begin considering a home office remodel, I have been looking at pictures of offices. If a picture appeals to me, I try and figure out why.
Here are some of the things I’ve noticed:
1) Dark hardwood desk and cabinetry.
2) Clutter Free (indicates sufficient storage)
3) No Visible Accessories (printers, staplers, etc are hidden)
4) One to [...]
Sometimes they a subtle mistakes only known by you. Other times they are huge and everyone in the universe knows of them.
Sometimes mistakes are of your own doing, other times mistakes are out of your control.
Treating a mistake like a learning experience can also be a detriment or a godsend. If you are analytical like [...]
