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Best. Outlook. Plugin. EVAH!

April 29th, 2011 · No Comments · tools

A guy I work with just changed my life. I have a very severe problem with stating in the body of an email that I have attached a document and then hitting  ”send” before attaching. Jeremy B. – may your first child be a masculine child. The solution is the Missing Attachment Powertoy. Download it. [...]

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Using Social Media in Your Job Search

January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · career, Facebook, linkedin, marketing, personal branding, social networking, tools, Twitter, Uncategorized

I took my brother to Career Sherpa’s Employment Club meeting last night. She walked through her presentation on Using Social Media in Your Job Search. This made me feel guilty, because I was working on an update for this same subject. So – here it is. This goes into a lot more detail this time [...]

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Getting a Job in 2011

January 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · career, linkedin, marketing, networking, tools

I know a couple of people that are re-entering the job market after years of not working or only working part-time. I thought I would share some thoughts and words of encouragement. First. You need some kind of marketing vehicle. Traditionally, this is called a resume. Right now, I have three documents. I have your [...]

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On Craftsmanship

December 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · career, tools

The concept of “craftsmanship” or being a craftsman (or an “artist”) has been a strong recurring theme for me this year. Godin talks about it in Linchpin. Pressfield talks about being a “professional” or “artist”. Graeme pointed me to an article from Robin Sharma (“60 Tips for a Stunningly Great Life”) where number 3 is [...]

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Running A Successful Turnaround: Final Thoughts

August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · change, operations, tools, Uncategorized

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. We’ve talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding youremployees in an effort to get them more engaged, and finally, we talked about processes. When you walk into a situation [...]

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Running A Successful Turnaround: Process Improvements

August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · change, management, operations, tools, Uncategorized

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding your employees [...]

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Running a Successful Turnaround: The Employee View

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · change, leadership, management, operations, tools

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials and how to get a handle on your customers. Its all about [...]

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5 Simple Career Management Lessons

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · career, coaching, management, networking, personal branding, tools

The Keys To Unlocking Your Most Successful Career by Joann S. Lublin from the July 6, 2010 WSJ online is possibly the best article I have read all year about managing your career. Great, great stuff. Five simple lessons. 1. Network effectively. I already love Lublin. You’ve seen me rant about this before. She recommends [...]

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Running a Succesful Turnaround: The Financials

July 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · accounting, change, leadership, management, operations, tools

Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. This week, let’s talk about financials. [...]

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Running A Successful Turnaround: An Overview

June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · career, change, customer service, leadership, management, operations, tools

This continues our series on how to run a successful turnaround – or – The Mike Lally Way. Maybe we’ll just call this RAST. Running A Successful Turnaround. The Mike Lally Way is just way too lame. Today, I will take a holistic, high-level view and in future posts, I will look at each element [...]

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