Get To The Point Or Pay A Painful Price
There are immediate and real risks when you can’t get to the point in today’s attention-starved economy. Delayed decisions, ignored e-mails, endless meetings, harsh performance reviews, stalled sales and being avoided at all costs are among those consequences. Brevity is emerging as a new business staple. Busy professionals expect it and get annoyed when it’s missing. In my new [Read More]
We’re Hiring! Our Parent Company, Zuckerberg Media, Is Hiring For The Following Two Positions
Dot Complicated: Editor & Community Manager This is a part-time position, which could eventually be expanded to full-time. Positioned is based ideally in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we are open to a rock-star working remotely. Job Description: This person will assist Dot Complicated's Editor-In-Chief in writing and editing articles for Dot Complicated, writing [Read More]
Navigating Friendships on LinkedIn
Your browsing through your LinkedIn suggested contacts when *GULP* there she is. Her profile pic is way cuter than yours. It looks like she got it professionally done in a studio and she’s posing for a Cover-Girl ad. She has an MBA. Clearly, she’s way smarter than you are. No, I’m not talking about your ex-boyfriend’s [Read More]
Is Your Money A Mess? Clean Up With These Apps
Whenever I visit my accountant, he makes a point of saying how sharp I am about money. So you can imagine how shocked he was after he asked me for copies of some statements recently and my response was, “Really? You want me to dig through all my files?” Aside from the embarrassment, this incident [Read More]
Managing Work Expectations in a Plugged-In-World
By now we all know that managing life, family, and a career can sometimes seem impossible. With the advancement of technology over the last two decades, work tasks have become much easier. However, these advancements have created an always-accessible work expectation. Having worked in corporate America for over a decade, the most important thing I’ve learned is how imperative it [Read More]
Why Busy People Get More Done And How You Can Too
When you don’t have a plan for how you are going to spend your day, you’ll usually find yourself wasting the moments you have to make a difference. That’s the secret of being busy. That’s why busy people get more done. Because they are already moving. When you already have things to do it’s easy [Read More]