Tag: advice
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No one likes being told their dead, dev skills, books to read – Coté Memo #23
It’s the end of the year – might as well be over once I wrap up today. On the other hand, if you’re in sales, it’s hardly the end of the year. It might be the most white-knuckling two weeks left. I’m sure glad I don’t do that work. Infrastructure Software in 2016 summerized Coté…
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Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar
Explained like this, this makes a lot a sense: “When accepting a task, this philosophy proposes immediately allocating time in the calendar to accomplish it. Consider the due date, the time required, and the relative importance. Then book the slot…. This extra step reinforces the rigid time constraint immediately, not later when I’m staring at…
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Link: Banking time
If time is money, you should “save” it as much as possible, which means “spending” it wisely. Check out these meaningful, brief tips. Source: Banking time
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Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor
While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=” online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from…
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All the taboos about working at home
Working at home, with a family, is a challenge, as this nice overview piece at The Register goes over. You think you’re trading all those interruptions from co-workers talking about the sportsball or just complaining about the daily grind, but you’re actually trading in for a different set of co-workers, your family. And their requests…
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Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
Beards considered a career retardant: “For men, that may mean getting rid of a beard or mustache, since almost one-quarter (24%) of these managers objected to facial hair.” Other fun facts like don’t be a sour-puss. Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
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Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
Men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the criteria, while women wait until they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
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The little-known body language secrets
Even if folding your arms feels comfortable, resist the urge to do so if you want people to see you as open-minded and interested in what they have to say. That one’s the worst! I want to cross my arms all the time to relax but I know that with all the pop-psychology over the…
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Advice for being an industry analyst
Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version of one of my recent emails: Learn how to listen to yourself, focus You have to learn to trust your intuition about what you focus on, your own style and voice, and, most importantly for monetization, how you…
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…
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What they will not do is maintain steady eye contact or smile. If a stranger of the opposite sex smiles at you, it’s best to do as the French do and return only a blank look before turning away. If you smile back, you might find yourself in a Pepé Le Pew–type situation. http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3925.html
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The single over-arching theme is this idea is that one should not compete, one should try to differentiate really hard. You want to do things that are one of a kind, you want to do something like a monopoly. You don’t want to do things that put you in cut-throat competition, like opening a restaurant.…
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Creative People Say No
parislemon: Kevin Ashton: Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. We are not taught to say “no.” We are taught not…
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Staying calm, apply with care
“What if?” statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control. Calm people know that asking…
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. “What Problems to Solve ,” Richard Feynman
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Roald Dahl (via kateordie)
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\”Hell is other people,\” but don’t let that stop you
> Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon. > > So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go,…
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Some things that are poor businesses
Doctors have obligations to their patients, teachers to their students, pastors to their congregations, curators to the public, and journalists to their readers—obligations that lie outside the realm of earnings, and are fundamentally different from the obligations that a business executive has to employees, partners, and investors. Historically, institutions like museums, hospitals, schools, and universities…
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Think big, but have small, short, and focused meetings
Have 15 minutes be the default. Sure, sounds interesting. See also Rumsfeld’s meeting rules which opens with a more management take on what meetings are for: If you think about it, a meeting’s function is to pool an organization’s collective wisdom and knowledge in one room, making it easier for a manager to learn what…
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Tips on scheduling meetings
I’m constantly shocked at how poor most people are ar scheduling meetings. There’s often simple things like “use the free/busy function” that you have to remind people about. Anyhow, there’s some good tips here if you’re someone who does all their meeting scheduling in plain text (read: you need help!), e.g.: Instead, when I’m setting…
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