When I was in 7th grade I had a huge crush on a girl named Christy, or Chrissie or Carla or Maggie – whatever. The point is, I was in love. But she didn’t love me back. So when I called her, she would make up elaborate excuses to get off the phone with me. …
Christina Gleason has written an excellent rebuttal to my recent Smart Meetings article, 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Tweet During Presentations. Really. She put the word ‘poppycock’ into her title, which is enough all by itself to convince me that she would be a ton of fun to hang out with. (‘Poppycock” did not make my list of…
Hello again! First off, sorry for my absence. I could chalk it up to being busy, but the truth is I was kidnapped by pirates and taken to their jungle hideout. It took me a while to escape and then fashion a raft out of trees lashed together with coconut fibers. But I’m back, and…
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There was a time in the world when every day was a vacation, because we hadn’t invented work yet. All of us just wandered around enjoying every moment except for the one when we got eaten by something. But then work came along, and those glory days vanished. Now we have to schedule vacation time.…
April 23 is Administrative Assistant Day, a day where bosses the world over tell their administrative assistants to order flowers for themselves as a “token” of appreciation. But they deserve more than that. Here are 7 reasons that your administrative assistants are pretty much the only thing keeping you from bankruptcy. #1- You have no…
Every month I like to keep track of how many LinkedIn connections I have, but once you get over 500 it just says 500+ and finding the actual number is like trying to find Waldo in a field of candy canes. I’m not sure why LinkedIn likes to hide this number, but after struggling to…
I’m sure you’ve heard of the trust fall, that iconic team building exercise where you hope your colleagues don’t hate you so much that they passively watch as you fall to the ground from a chair or a tree stump or whatever. But to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever explained the trust…
Graduation season is approaching, which means that millions of college graduates are about to begin their first post-educational job. Maybe you’re about to be a health care consultant, or perhaps you’re the newest employee at the world’s first starfish farm. But whatever job you’re about to get, here are 8 things to expect on your…
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