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the elevator pitch on speed

September 10, 2007

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If you’re a jobseeker or entrepreneur, you’ve heard of the elevator pitch, that sixty second script about yourself and your work that you’re supposed to have burned into your subconscious, ready to whip out at any time in case you share an elevator with Bill Gates on some distant, blessed day. I think Gates has […]

blogging for branding

September 7, 2007

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This is a solid, if pitchy, podcast from The Blog Squad about using your blog to help grow your brand as a professional. They put the hard sell on a couple of times, but it’s nonetheless worth listening to if you’re using your blog to raise your professional profile because it’s pretty solid on both […]

and sick leave for all

August 28, 2007

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Including me. Sorry all, I will be back when I’m better. In the meanwhile, check out the blogs in the blogroll and/or click on the Oracle in the sidebar to get to a random post on this blog. c u l8r! P.S. I have no idea why this blog went from an average of 400 […]

measuring the true cost of your choices

August 20, 2007

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Your life is a strange and complex web defined by the tension between choices made and choices forgone. On internetducttape, engtech has a good post about weighing the cost of your life choices and making informed decisions, including the decision to incorporate deliberately “unproductive” time in your day-to-day routine. Remember, inspiration and insight cannot strike […]

stay hungry. stay foolish

August 2, 2007

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Universities rightly get a lot of crap for handing out honorary degrees to celebrities (Tom Selleck, anyone?) just to ramp up the glam factor of their graduation ceremonies so that the no-name honorary degree-getters will feel inspired to donate millions. But every now and again a celebrity comes up with something that’s pure gold. They’re […]

vacate the premises

July 25, 2007

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Have we all heard enough from the self-proclaimed workforce martyrs who whine about how the company cannot possibly spare them for a four-day weekend once a decade? It’s great to love what you do; it’s not so great to be scared to turn your back on it. That does not speak of confidence, y’all. And […]

site-specific stress

July 9, 2007

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Now, this is interesting…but also a bit of a well duh. According to a study released by the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford, sites that load slowly and are hard to navigate caused classic signs of stress including sweating and an increase in heart rate. Now, theoretically this means you could get your aerobic […]

what is your biggest timewaster?

June 13, 2007

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I found you an interesting post: the Productivity 501 blog has interviewed more productivity experts than you can shake a Blackberry at, and has compiled the ultimate master list of the biggest timewasters, according to the experts. See if you can identify yourself in any of these scenarios, and think about ways to not be […]

protecting your turf

May 16, 2007

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From the truly excellent The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe by Stanley Bing. The publisher is gonna kill me for putting any of this on the web, I know, but I picked up this book a couple of weeks ago in […]

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