The cube farm environment is already unpleasant enough with its ugly, drab walls and the steady, droning hum of incessant noise that sucks all the life out of people and turns them into brain-drained zombies, but at least once a week, something else happens. Someone answers a cell phone. No, I’m not talking about the people who [...]
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Categories: Business, Rants
Tags: cube farms suck, no privacy in the office, noisy cube farms, noisy offices, rude people with cell phones
Most are probably familiar with that verse from the New Testament that states, “The love of money is the root of all evil,” but I’m really beginning to wonder if that verse contained a typo, or if “money” was really symbolic of something else. Like Powerpoint. We’ve had all sorts of common, famous, and infamous [...]
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Categories: Business, Speaking
Tags: how not to use Powerpoint, love of Powerpoint, Powerpoint is evil
Class started up again yesterday, and we have a weekly assignment to complete a point paper (a one page outline) of an article from the The Wall Street Journal. I chose one titled Who has innovative ideas? Employees. The idea in this article is that employees from all functions and ranks within a company can form innovation communities [...]
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Categories: Business
Tags: innovation communities, innovation culture
Earlier this year, I wrote a mini-paper for class about a business model called the Service-Profit Chain. The idea is that if a business starts off strengthening the first link in the chain, internal service quality, and then strengthens each successive link in the chain, then the result will be greater revenue growth and profitability for the business. [...]
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Categories: Business, Personal Development
Tags: positive thinking, service-profit chain