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Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People One of my all time favorite books (and one that I’ve probably read and/or listened to more than50 times) is Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People“. I first picked up this book in college to work on overcoming a terrible shyness and fear of meeting people. Over . . . → Read More: What Dale Carnegie Taught Me….Part I. Share on FacebookPart III of excerpts from the Field Manual of Sabotage….. (How not to be a good employee or consultant) Part 12 – General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion (a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned (or one of my favorites, don’t answer the question that was asked, answer something else…my kids do that all the time). (b) Report . . . → Read More: The “Anti-Pattern” for a good consultant (or employee) – Part III. Share on FacebookThings you should be doing if you want to be a bad consultant or employee. In other words, here a whole list of behaviors and things not to do if you want to be considered a good employee or better yet a solid and valuable consultant (who is retained over and over again and brings in the revenue). . . . → Read More: The “Anti-Pattern” for a good consultant (or employee) – Part II. Share on FacebookThis arrived in my email box this morning from Jason Follas, and I had to post it here because it seems so relevant to the mission of this blog… Thanks Jason. The following is an excerpt from an recently declassified military manual for saboteurs (Simple Sabotage Field Manual)…. I just pulled the sections relevant to working (which . . . → Read More: The “Anti-Pattern” for a good consultant (or employee) – Part I. Share on FacebookImage by juhansonin via Flickr Complexity of decisions… I was sitting through an online demo of a software tool this morning when I was struck by some powerful emotions. You see I was looking to purchase the software as a means to better run a start up business I’ve been dreaming about for some time. The software was . . . → Read More: Scared away by too much knowledge? Share on Facebook |
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