Mon.Aug 24, 2015

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How to Deliver Bad News to the Boss -- and Survive

On The Job

One of the toughest things to do in your career is to make that long, long walk into your boss's office and tell her that you're not going to make a deadline. If you're very, very lucky, the boss may respond with "That's OK." But if you don't have such a boss, you may get a) a frown b) yelled at c) a frown, yelling and perhaps a stinging rebuke that will go into your personnel file.

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Amazon and the Growth of the Independent Workforce

Small Business Labs

The Internet has lit up with reactions to the New York Times article on Amazon's bruising, data-driven, "purposeful Darwinism" culture. The vast majority of reactions are negative. This not surprising given how harsh the article makes Amazon sound - people crying at their desks, sick people callously culled, lots of backstabbing, etc. The reason we care about this issue is how companies treat their workers has a major impact on the independent workforce.

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The four steps of business travel planning

Practically Perfect PA

As I said many times arranging travel for your Executive can be a tricky business. Knowing their preferences, getting them to their destination and then managing them while they are away from the office is a time consuming task. It can take up a good many hours particularly if you are organising a complex trip. Having recently talked to an assistant who said arranging business travel for her Exec took up a huge amount of her time (over 24 days per year!

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Swipe File: Winning Confirmation, Thank You, and Welcome Messages

Denise Aday

Confirmation, thank you, and welcome messages are an important of the new subscriber experience and another marketing opportunity for you. You’ve already made your signup offer enticing enough for someone to submit their email address (and perhaps more). Why not make the most of your confirmation and welcome messaging, too? The default copy provided by MailChimp and other email service providers for setting up our signup pages and messages is the bare minimum — a good guideline and startin

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Multi-tasking is not what it’s all cracked up to be.

Office Dynamics

Must We Multi-task? Maybe It’s Better Not To. After all, multi-tasking is not what it’s all cracked up to be. As I deliver sessions at seminars and conferences throughout North America in every kind of business you can think of, I often encounter people who are pleased, even proud, that they can multi-task. What about you? Do you regularly multi-task, such as reading emails while someone is talking to you on the telephone?

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5 Ways I Read More Than 50 Books Last Year

Productivityist

Everyone wants to read more books, but we don’t spend the time required to do so. Reading is difficult in an environment based on feed refreshes and new blog posts. It’s a noisy world, and reading just doesn’t fit in that well. Or does it? In many ways, reading is like a home-cooked meal compared to the fast food diet of instant information found on your screen.