You need to be more assertive. Yet, less of an asshole. There’s a lot of conflicting information about how to handle conflict. Were told to be nice, just not a pushover. Remember the golden rule, but look out for number one. Be confident, just without all the arrogance. The result: meaningless platitudes that aren’t helpful […]
Archives for September 2007
Friday Links 07-09-20
From the Web Specializing is for Suckers – Tim Ferriss points out the Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades. I thought this was a great post to counter all those “stick to your talents” people who call themselves experts. Personally, I believe that Ben Casnocha‘s suggestion of the T-Model (specializing in […]
Goalless Action
Is having goals making you unhappy? This has always been a difficult question for myself, with pundits on both sides trying to make the answers seem cut and dried. I think the answer is a little more complex. Goal-setters often describe their goalless counterparts as being lazy wanders who never accomplish anything. They never learn […]
Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow
Focus is essential to getting work done. If you can’t engineer a productive flow to your work, everything crawls to the finish. Tasks become a sluggish crawl to the finish that is both inefficient and almost painful to work through. Any writer that has felt writers block or a programmer stuck on a difficult problem […]