Understanding organizational history and how to properly deal with the politics is a key to success. I started the process of understanding this concept during the interview for my first professional position. If I had not learned this lesson, my promotion opportunities would have been severely limited.
Visitors Are Not Created Equal
Last week’s editorial about good customer service, especially online, brought quite a few comments from you. Some were good. Some were bad. While the good praised the efforts of those companies offering superior service, some were critical.
Do You Want a Job Created Just For You?
In good times and bad, there are jobs to be had.
But if you follow the crowds and apply only for positions advertised in the classifieds or on Internet job sites you’re doing what everybody else is doing.
How to Know When You’ve Created a Good Ad
A great copywriter once wrote, “A good ad is like a good sermon: It not only comforts the afflicted, it also inflicts the comfortable.”
But the question of the moment is this: How do you know — before a single living colleague, client or consumer has laid eyes on it — that you’ve done a good ad? That it’s the right time to stop all the thinking, talking, writing, doodling and designing. The right time to click on “save” and call a meeting?
Have You Created Your Yearly Theme Yet?
New Years’ Resolutions don’t last to long, do they? Instead, consider creating a theme to help keep you focused throughout the year.