Basically, you are screwed if you are a Canadian from an ice hockey crazed family and weren’t born in the first half of the year.
(re)Examining Modern Convention
Tag Archive: business
Penelope Trunk, Paul Nawrocki and That Wretched Under 40 Set
Interestingly enough, Mr. Nawrocki responded. I thought, however, it would also be appropriate to post Mr. Nawrocki’s comments in the same fashion:
You’re Not Successful – You’re Just Lucky
I’ve taken on a project that should keep me busy for the next few weeks and be a lot of fun for YOU. Recently, I purchased Malcom Gladwell’s most recent book, Outliers. If you don’t know who Mr. Gladwell is, he is the mega-successful author of The Tipping Point and Blink.
The 5 P’s of Getting Fired
As I’m sure you already know, perfectly nice, well-mannered, sociable, happy and likeable people keep their jobs – jerks and jackasses do not.
The Devil is in the Details
Being into the details requires taking time to scrutinize, analyze and pay attention. Such individuals take their work very, very seriously and demand that they slowly and methodically calculate each piece of (ir)relevant information.
No one can (or should) do that in a rapid fashion.
Painful Lessons from Buying a Fixer-Upper Home (and Stuff About Work), Part 3
If you remember, I bought my home in the dead of a Chicago winter – so waiting for a alarm system installer in the February freeze of an unheated bungalow was no picnic.
What to Do When You Have a Less than Stellar Resume
Oh God – you’ve looked up and 5 years of a boring job hell have passed you by! After ridding yourself of the grogginess of being a career zombie, you remember that you’d like to have real professional journey as well as something to tell your grand-kids.
Painful Lessons from Buying a Fixer-Upper Home (and Stuff About Work), Part 2
People who make threats are either bullies, desperate or unquestionably stupid. There is no exception