When Eric Urtiaga started his new job as a Product Manager for a nutritional products company in San Diego, he was looking forward to having an impact on a market that he cared a lot about. Eric was passionate about maintaining a healthy mind, body and spirit, at work and in the rest of his […]
Carol Althaus had a problem. One of her co-workers, a great hardworking guy whom everyone liked, had horrible body odor ‒ sometimes. Well, most of the time actually, but there were days when everything seemed fine. Or maybe she was just getting used to it. It had become a topic of conversation among several people […]
(Note: This article is from the author’s Win the Job War blog) “Why can’t people just say what they mean and mean what they say?” lamented Jenny, a mid-level manager for one of my client businesses. “If we focused all of this energy on the business we wouldn’t have most of the issues that cause […]
Reinforcing the perspective that there is no such thing as a bad/dumb interview question, here are some comments I’ve received to my recent article “Dumb Answers to Bad Interview Questions.” The most commonly cited “dumb” question was “if you were a plant, what kind of plant would you be?” Variants of this question included animal, […]
Recently on our “Win the Job War” blog we’ve been getting a number of comments and complaints about job interviewers asking questions that seem (to the candidate) to be pointless, silly, inane or downright offensive. In addition I recently read an article about “stupid” job interview questions and everyone seems to agree that questions like […]
By Kevin Daum. Inc. 500 entrepreneur and best-selling author. Facing tough competition? Supersmart people know how to gain advantage. Here are their secrets. So much of business is competitive. Your market competitors are not the only people you will go up against to be successful. Sometimes your colleagues, employees, and partners will compete with you […]
By Jeff Haden, Contributing editor, Inc I definitely believe in the power of hard work. As Jimmy Spithill, skipper of Team Oracle USA, says, “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” But we can all work smarter, too. And clearly we all want to, as […]
John Lennon once famously said “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” in his song “Beautiful Boy” And indeed, a lot of times, life doesn’t exactly turn the way we foresee it to. It seems like everything is going fine, and all of a sudden the panic button strikes. You find everything […]
All of us have experienced occasions when we wished we had listened more closely to what was being said. Usually, good listening requires self-discipline, and sometimes it requires self-examination. If you sometimes have problems listening to what others say, some of these factors may be behind the difficulty: Prejudice. You may conclude — either before […]
How often do you shade the truth, tell “little white lies” or “lie by omission” during your day-to-day business communications? In a recent survey of more than 2,000 workers in a broad range of markets and industries, more than 60% reported “occasional lies” and 18% reported “almost daily” lies in their work environment. What is most striking are […]