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Practice Makes Permanent — Eliminate the Routines that are Holding You Back
I was watching a humorous video of a race car driver, apparently competing in a cross-country race. The car was equipped with an inside camera to permit watching the driver and where he was going. The...
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Use Your Company’s Small Size to Full Advantage
I need all you big businesses to skip this blog post. I have a private message for smaller businesses. Are they gone? Okay. Rather than be intimidated by your bigger competitors, you should be smug in...
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When Conducting a Job Search, It’s Easy to Distinguish Yourself
It’s not often that I get to observe the hiring process first hand. I’ve had ZERO turnover in my employees since starting my firm, which says something about my screening process and their loyalty. We...
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That Job is Not Just Boring — It’s Killing You!
Continuing with my theme of the importance of working for yourself, I now offer evidence that your boring job may well be killing you. In an article to be published in the International Journal of...
View ArticleKicking the Unemployed While They are Down
In a go-go employment market, it might be reasonable to assume that an unemployed job applicant did something wrong to become unemployed. In other words, most people look for a new job before ditching...
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10 Workplace Myths that Will Bite You in the Butt
I spend a good part of my days explaining basic employment law to callers, and on occassion I get a caller who tells me I obviously don’t know what I am talking about, because what I am saying is...
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Time Management – Do You Create An Effective To-Do List?
With the new year a few days away, I wanted to offer a useful article on the most basic of motivational and organizational tools, the humble to-do list. Some lessons have to be learned over and over,...
View ArticleTop Ten Ways to Blow a Job Interview
Interviewing prospective employees is an amazing process. How long does an interview last? Ten minutes? Thirty minutes? Maybe an hour and a half if the interview is over lunch? And yet, even over...
View ArticleDon’t Be Blind to the Signs You are About to be Terminated
I feel the need to vent. I’ve received three calls today from long-term employees who were fired out of the blue and have no idea what they are going to do with themselves. Again I say it. Never stop...
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22 Working Tips from The Office
After nine years, The Office has closed its doors, but not before teaching us a number of highly important workplace lessons. This article from The Week lists 22 lessons, but here are a few of my...
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