BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Boost their energy to keep your job:Do you still have a job? If so, let me guess. You are working harder and doing more, because a few of your colleagues have been fired. (Now that more work is trickling in as ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 7:41 AM
How to regain respect:As we drift towards Labor Day, I plead, yes, plead that business leaders out there will apply Emmanuel Kant’s categorical imperative:Here it is: What would happen if every one behaved the way you do?If ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM
Always hungry means never enough:Have you heard the one about me being charged by a lioness? Oh, you have. Well, a funny thing happened when I told that story again recently. I suddenly remembered how quickly fear ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Seeing differently creates dreams:
Where do big dreams come from? I don’t know. But I do know that big dreams come through inspiration.
Inspiration is a sudden, brilliant, original idea. And original ideas come from seeing ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Sep 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM
Habitually struggling to find work:At last, signs that the economy is turning. Or as the pundits say, it is returning to positive territory.What about you? Are you in positive territory?I hope so because we humans have a ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Sep 8, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Efficiency can cost too much:Labor day has come and gone and I worry about work. Not only the lack of it but also how the narrow focus on cost control has cheapened it.Many people think that the point of efficiency is to reduce ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Don’t only build your strengths:Here’s another little trap to avoid if you are trying to land a job or a promotion.Many populist life-skills coaches promote the idea that you should
concentrate on building your strengths, while ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Business is not sport:Football season is here again and so is my pet dislike – holding up sports teams as models for business teams to copy. It’s ridiculous for business teams to strive to be like sports teams. And it ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Are you consistent or stubborn? When it comes to job hunting, are you consistent or stubborn?Being consistent at work matters because it enables others to anticipate how you will act. Consistency is the basis of ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM
Rolling with the times:What does the saying ‘a rolling stone gathers no moss’ mean to you?I grew up in a culture where calling someone a rolling stone was an insult. It meant that the person was incapable of holding down a ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Sep 24, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Practice being suddenly successful:One thing this sudden economic collapse has taught many of us is just how right Ernest Hemingway was about going broke. In his book “The Sun Also Rises” a character explains that he went ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 6:21 AM
Information is job power:In this era of frantic job hunting, many people make one of two choices about job information - to share it or to hog it.I have been a guest speaker at a number of job hunting networking groups. I ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Oct 5, 2009 at 7:28 AM
When is your business a business?The faster big businesses shed jobs, the more we need entrepreneurs. Thank goodness so many people kicked out by big business are trying their hand at small business. I hope you succeed.As ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Stay uptight a little longer:Here is a health care warning. As the economy recovers and business picks up, your health and the health of your business may suffer.Remember what often happened to you after exam time or some ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Nov 5, 2009 at 6:22 AM
Playing hard to getShould you or shouldn’t you play hard to get when trying to make a sale or hoping to land a job - that is the question.I once landed a good job because I played hard to get, by accident. I wasn’t sure ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Nov 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Don’t waste a nonsense moment:Have you heard the one about the 6 year old Cub Scout who was so proud of his scout eating utensil that he took it to use at school? He got 45 days in a disciplinary school all because the ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Legally spreading illness:Here’s a fun question for you. What is the quickest way to legally spread swine flu in the USA? You don’t know? Here’s a clue. It has to do with people you interact with every ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Trust in paint for protection from stupid texters:Let me tell you about one of the most amazingly powerful things found in our modern society. No, no, it’s not technology or weaponry. It’s something that has been ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Jul 2, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Dream big what matters:
Do you believe in something big? I don’t mean religion, although that does qualify. I mean anything that means more to you than life itself. Or almost more.
Big shakers and movers all have big ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Why stupid happens at work:
Organizations are strange concoctions. They are staffed with people who agree to strive for collective objectives in exchange for individual rewards. These people agree on a code of conduct and to ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 6:52 AM
Simplify your focus:
Just for a change I stopped thinking about this recession. Instead, I thought about its implications. Will it change us? If so, how?
Questions triggered no doubt by all these articles celebrating ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Apr 6, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Time for some inaction:
We’re at that stage of the economic cycle where I worry that there is too much execution in executive.
The term ‘executive’, as in chief executive officer, means having the power to execute, to ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Mar 20, 2009 at 5:19 AM
The worst thing about this recession:
You know what’s the worst thing about this recession? Okay, okay, there are many ‘worst’ things about this recession, but here’s the worst thing I’m facing right now.
It’s ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM
The recession is in the past:
Tell me, how do we define a recession? Let me remind you. We have a recession when the country's gross domestic product, its GDP, shrinks for at least two consecutive quarters. A depression ...READ»
BYJames McIntosh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 6:09 AM
Time to be friendly:
Well, well, well, there is a silver lining in this cloud of bad news. Listen and see if you spot it.
Years ago I was meeting with a manager in his office when his telephone rang. He ignored it. Being ...READ»
