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Posted in Leadership, Skills, personal improvement, work on May 10th, 2008
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of what we do. What I mean is that it can be hard sharing everything that you know, and teach other people what your job entails. The natural reaction is to hang on to that knowledge, be the expert, the guru that can do it all.
However, are you [...]
Posted in personal improvement, professional, work on Apr 10th, 2008
I want to see you succeed!
It’s that simple. I want to see people rise to their full potential and reap the rewards of their efforts. Why more people don’t work towards their goals rather than their employer’s is confusing to me. So in this post I’m going to share a few [...]
This morning I was getting started on the day, fired up Twitter and immediately saw that Chris Brogan had a new post. One that hits home to an issue I’ve been having as a consultant or freelance professional. The post is a great resource for those starting out freelancing, or re-launching their personal brand.
The biggest [...]
Posted in technology, work on Dec 26th, 2007
Up here in Minnesota, we quite often get some good winter storms. Because of these, travel can become quite difficult. Not just because of the snow & slush that accumulates on the roadways, but because of the population growth of the Twin Cities as well.
I’ve long driven in from the fringe suburbs, or more [...]
Posted in life, social media, work on Dec 11th, 2007
This is a partial solution to a question that’s been in my mind for some time. Since I created a Social Media Resume (SMR) a few months back, the point that I didn’t enable comments directly on the page has been bothering me.
Part of the reason for that is because I wanted to keep [...]
And it is. As with most things that "go wrong", it’s usually self-induced. Today I realized after placing the "work" laptop into the port replicator that I somehow mucked up the system last Friday.
I do remember what I did too! I was working on one of my test distribution systems and created a Windows PE [...]
As I’ve mentioned awhile ago, I’ve started working with a new client in Minneapolis. It’s among the larger clients I’ve worked with an am enjoying the experience so far. While there is transition going on, the people here are pretty good.
It’s interesting to watch a department go through an outsourcing exercise and see the effects [...]
That is exactly what I’ve been exhibiting to my friends and readers. It happens for a number of reasons, but mine is completely unintentional.
As I’ve alluded to over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of changes. Moving, shortage of work, bloggers block, and the related stress of it all has kept [...]
I’d been kinda busy in September, but not entirely and it really was affecting my posting here on the blog. My search for clients and reliable contract work was disrupting my efforts on this blog (and others) to the extent that all thoughts simply dried up.
Well, Friday of this week was a great day for [...]
Posted in work on Aug 20th, 2007
So I’m again sitting up writing at midnight, wondering why it is that I find inspiration to work when it gets dark. While I don’t have the exact answer, I do think that having some quite time at night has something to do with it. There are fewer distractions, it’s quieter (except for the headphones [...]
At least that’s something that I have learned in the last 4 months since leaving corporate life. No, I don’t miss the cube farms, the burnt popcorn smell emanating from the break room, or the overly boisterous cube neighbor.
The most important thing I’ve figured out is that no matter where you work, you do [...]
Posted in personal improvement, professional, work on Jul 20th, 2007
Ah, another productive Friday. Sometimes I’m surprised at the amount of work I get done on Fridays. A little sunshine, a little Van Halen, WiFi, Coffee, and the work gets done.
This is something that I just couldn’t do in corporate - the dirty secret is that I could have if only allowed to. Working off-site [...]
Posted in work on May 23rd, 2007
What I find amazing after leaving corporate life is that there are actually other people out there in business. While that is a ’super doh!’ statement, I hadn’t really taken the time to notice other people and what they do for a living. How many people actually work out of coffee shops, cafes and other [...]
Posted in work on May 2nd, 2007
That is the makeup of my tasks this week. While I’m pretty much caught up on my email, I do have a large backlog of feeds that I need to parse through and read. Luckily Google Reader makes that easy.
As for the rest of the week, I’ve got a lot of work in the research [...]
Posted in work on Apr 26th, 2007
So I’ve completed my last day with Michael Foods. The last two weeks have been an almost non-stop brain dump and documentation marathon. It’s taken extra hours each day and left me drained of ambition to do much else when I got home.
Now that this transition is over, I’m going to be able to focus my attention [...]
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