About two years ago, BK, a retired publisher who does more work in one day than most working publishers do in a week, shared one of his secrets with me. Wherever he goes, he carries in his pocket a very small pad of paper and a pencil. He uses these not only to jot down phone numbers and the like but also to record those fleeting good ideas — big and small — that seem to come when we are least prepared to make note of them. (more…)
Are you a pushy person?
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Receiving constructive criticism from your boss helps you become a more valuable employee. Usually, this takes place at your annual performance review. But once a year is not enough. (more…)
A former employee of mine once allowed a serious business problem to go unreported because he thought he could fix it himself. He couldn’t — and it cost the company $400,000.
We are all held back by misperceptions. We have the wrong idea of what wealth is. We don’t understand our customers. We trust people we shouldn’t.
K almost never gets sick. And when she does, you can hardly tell. That’s because she doesn’t complain. She insists she’ll be in fine shape “after a good night’s sleep.”
I, in contrast, assume that every sniffle is an indication of a terrible disease with a dark outcome.