Before I start, let me just say that I am a big advocate of the outlook presented at the beginning of the recent Business Insider article, 6 Questions to Ask During Your Interview That Will Make an Employer Want to Hire You It’s common advice among job seekers: when you’re interviewing, you need to interview…
I was reading this article the other day, Turnover is Turnover: What Churning Employees Says About Your Culture, when this passage struck me: Even now, with a new title and lots more money, she said that she will eventually leave. Working 50-60 hours is commonplace, and she said that she cannot live the rest of…
Thursdays notes. Note that the late night on Weds led to me missing a good chunk of the keynote on Thursday, but I will say that the idea of using humor in your business communication is an excellent on. It fits right in with what I’ve been saying about effective communication and building relationships as…
As I waited at the airport in Las Vegas yesterday, I did some quick figuring about the month of August, 2010. In the first 27 days of the month, I had spent the night in a hotel for 21 of them. In that time I had: Slept in 5 different hotels Flown over 10,000 miles…
The session was right after lunch, and was sparsely attended, to say the least, but I think it went pretty well. At least a couple of folks seemed to get something out of it, so there’s that. I wanted to share a little bit of the idea for my section of the discussion. I drew…
In an otherwise maddening post about his experience with a law school student, Craig Ball makes an interesting “throw away” comment: We look to the crop of eager young lawyers to be inherently more adept at e-discovery than we who preceded them. After all, they have iPhones. Craig (who I assume was being facetious), is…