Rethinking how people and businesses interact
From the monthly archives:
If there is one thing I love about internet/web 2.0, it is the lack of advertising. I kid of course. Web 2.0 is full of advertisements. I am not the worst offender but I have certainly included advertisements and I will continue to do so until servers and bandwidth are free. What is usually great [...]
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Woot.com is one of my favorite sites on the web. I visit it at least once a day and sometimes multiple times per day. Why do I love it? Every day is different. But… (here is the clincher) it is predictably different. After all, I go to the site at 10:00pm my time and there [...]
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Your boss probably doesn’t care about “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving where retailers typically put on a barrage of sales). Unless you work in a handful of positions, you probably had it off and it probably gave you a good reason to come in this morning. After all, your credit card won’t pay for [...]
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I was thinking about the holidays and how people who have been fired right before a holiday get more sympathy than just a normal firing. I don’t get that. There is no good time or even better time to be fired. That’s of course is leaving out the possibility that you were fired after winning [...]
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Okay, maybe “hates” is a strong word. And really, I don’t personally hate holidays. But something has got to change. “So how can you hate holidays you sick jerk?” My readers are polite so maybe they wouldn’t ask something like that. In reality, holidays kill momentum in regular businesses* with the assuredness of a Dick [...]
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I started work at a fortune 50 company just over 2 years ago, with a fresh MBA in hand, and 5 plus years work experience. My starting grade level was a 13, with a salary of $64k. After 18 months I was promoted within position to the next grade level (15), and my salary increased to $77k. I’ve just taken a lateral move to my first managerial role, and my new pay is $84k. The position has the flexibility to be promoted to the next level (17), which would get me close to, or over, the $100k range. I felt very happy with this until I learned that one of my direct reports who is a level 13 earns $85k per year.
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No says Scott Berkun. But… There are problems with any company growing large. A culture shift from going from small to big. Many people talk about how great rapid growth is and obviously rapid growth usually follows other good things (like growing sales and revenues). There is a dynamic culture shift happens when companies get [...]
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MSNBC writes about how video resumes aren’t the answer to your job hunting woes. Surprisingly, they talked to me. I wonder why? They talked quite a bit to Aleskey Vayner who did the Impossible is Nothing video resume. Vayner is still looking for a job. I know you’re probably as surprised about that as I [...]
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Do it over and over again. Do it until it hurts. And then get up and do it again. The first thing I ever wanted to get good at was playing basketball. My Dad had put up a hoop on our garage and he would play out there with his friends. And I knew I [...]
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