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Structure + Boundaries = Freedom
No matter what the size of your business, you need to set boundaries and provide structure to your workday. You determine your…
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Travel Light
Bringing your emotional baggage into the work place is not effective for all the reasons you may think. Values should be consistent between your personal and professional life, but being human, that is not always so.
No-Kill Pop Box; Part II
In the "No-Kill Pop Box (Instead of Popups)" article, the first part of this series, code was provided to make a box of content pop onto the web page the visitor is viewing. It was presented as an alternative for webmasters who are losing income because of pop-up killers.
Know When to Hold, Know When to Fold
Success in your career usually means having the abilities of a gymnast--flexibility, strength, focus and skill, heightened by resilience, perseverance, determination and practice. The ability to accommodate change often requires all these things as well.
Building a Partnering Measurement System
Sitting in Perry's Los Angeles office was a humbling experience. The mahogany walls, teak boardroom table and leather-bound engineering manuals made me feel like I was on a Hollywood movie set. But I felt right at home when I walked up to the white board and started doing the math. Marker in hand, I asked Perry a series of questions aimed at quantifying the cost…
The Chief Marketing Scarecrow
When I was a little boy, my great-grandfather had a scarecrow in his garden. I often wondered if the scarecrow ever really fooled anyone or anything that came near it. According to my great-grandfather, it worked on those creatures that were easily scared, fooled or didn't know better. Today, I have come to think of certain executive marketing officers in this manner: If they put…
