Tag: Career

  • Your Clothes Convey Your Attitude

    Your Clothes Convey Your Attitude

    The good thing about business dress is that a very small effort will instantly put you a class above the majority of your peers.  You don’t have to wear tailored business suits or expensive Swiss watches.  Simply being well-kempt and presentable is a great start.

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  • Work is Better When You Aren’t Bored

    Work is Better When You Aren’t Bored

    Many corporate workers experience the exact opposite of “flow” every day at work.  None of their tasks are interesting, and they aren’t challenged intellectually. When they glance at the clock, they find that only seven minutes have passed, when they thought it must have been an hour. 

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  • Build Trust for Better Work Assignments

    Build Trust for Better Work Assignments

    I have a secret for you.  Somewhere in the depths of your company, someone is doing work that is interesting, challenging, and rewarding.  Work that has real world implications.  All companies have someone(s) doing this, because your company is creating a product or rendering a service that  some people deem valuable. 

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  • WELCOME TO CORPORATE SURVIVALISM

    WELCOME TO CORPORATE SURVIVALISM

    The first few months were everything you could have wanted and more.  Each day you learned something new and felt thrilled that you were contributing to a real business. But, at some point, the shine started to wear off.  Your work assignments began to feel repetitive, even as the words and numbers on the screen…

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