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Refusing to Ride in Silence
It is a morning ritual that a significant number of people experience every Monday through Friday. No, not the daily Starbucks run, but the time we spend riding up to our offices in an elevator. It...
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Sustaining Competitive Advantages with Synergistic Combinations
Long-term survival in today’s market is always questionable as many of the hottest businesses today will eventually fade away. Firms continually reinvent themselves to stay relevant and competitive...
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Strategies for Increasing Message Retention
I know that it is troublesome that everyone else, “but us,” have such a terrible memory and inability to remember details. However, there is more going on when we dig into this commonplace challenge....
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Work is a Means to an End
Meaningful work is a preferred method by which the majority of people wish to get many of their goals in life. Well, this is at least my firm belief. The work in-of-itself is not “the goal” or the...
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The Cultural Artifacts of an Office
The building blocks of an organization’s culture consist of the shared artifacts, beliefs, values, and assumptions (Heskett, 2012, p. 34). Corporate culture is often considered one of the strongest...
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Engage in Small Talk as “Friends” Reach Agreements Easier
It is a common practice to build rapport before entering into a deeper conversation (Coupland, 2003). Often referred to as “small talk,” it is an opportunity for the parties to get to know each other...
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An Error Occurred – Try Refreshing?
Sometimes apps have their own mind and do not behave as we wish. I have dealt with a problem where Microsoft MSN Money App for Windows 10 displays the following message on several tabs “An error...
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Thoughts on KPIs from High Output Management
I am a strong advocate for the power of key performance indicators (KPIs). These indicators help guide and focus departments, act as leverage when requesting resources, and provide insight when...
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Really, How Informed is our Decision Making?
Opinions are a form of judgment that require people to perform a decision-making process. In reality, these decisions are often supported by the thinnest levels of credible information and rational...
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Fear, Insecurity and the Scarcity Mindset
I feel as if there is a significant volume of works adoring, in a sense, and vilifying the scarcity mentality in our culture. I was fist exposed to these concepts by Brené Brown, and I was challenged...
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An Optimist at Heart
I am looking forward to the New Year as 2016 was not the best of years for the world. The US elections were difficult and left most people angry for one reason or another. If you watch the cable news,...
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Email Response: Considering Leaving the Firm
Yes, I changed the person’s name and reworded some sentences to protect the company’s identity. No, this is not my current or any former employer. If pressed for time, skip to the bottom for some...
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Do We Do Enough to Support Employees Emotional Well-Being During Growth...
Many employees’ express yearnings for experiential growth and development opportunities throughout their career. Frequently, they look to their manager to bring about these opportunities without...
View ArticleSliding Back Into Bad Habits
We work hard to stay on the straight and narrow path by staying focused in our work and driving towards our goals. However, as the pressure and demands on us increase, our focus begins to break down...
View ArticleUsing Site Speed in Google Analytics
Today, I was looking through my Google Analytics account and found something new. In reality, it is not really that new; I am just late finding it. The feature that I am speaking about is called Site...
View ArticleWipe That Data Before You Give It Away!
A short time ago, a friend of mine picked up a few spare hard drives. He was looking for older model hard drives to put on the shelf for when his low-priority legacy servers’ hard drives die. When he...
View ArticleProfiles: Revenge of the Web
Online profile management is challenging, and basically, a pain in the rear. I start by making one change on one profile on one website. Now, I have to replicate that action on multiple websites to...
View ArticleReturn of the Revenge of the Profiles
I recently wrote about the irritation in maintaining various Internet profiles. All these accounts that we create on all these Web services…each with a unique user profile that is a royal pain to...
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Everything Needs Maintenance, Even a Blog
It is been my general experience that many auto mechanics typically have cars that run in less than ideal condition. IT professionals often have computers and websites that are similarly plagued with...
View ArticleSo Many Cords – Where is Wireless Charging??
I was just picking up around the house and noticed just how many darn power cords we use. We are a gadget-based household; I am a techie to say the least. We have smartphones, tablets, laptops,...
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