Business

In Praise of Black and White Printers

05.14.2012 Business

You don’t need to print everything and everything you print doesn’t need to be color. If you’re anything like me, you’ve owned a plethora of little color printers over the years. I can’t even count them. Frankly, I’ve never been happy with any of them. They’re slow. The quality of printing isn’t that great. They’re [...]

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Amazon Prime-Quantum Edition

03.13.2012 Business

To: Office Staff Subject: Meeting Changes & Causality All, Until further notice, William Byrne will be absent from the office. He will also be unable to attend today’s schedule resolution meeting. It has come to our attention that William was using Amazon’s new Amazon Quantum shopping interface here in his cubical and received the item [...]

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Management Essentials: How To Hire

03.12.2012 Business

One of the most important things a manager will need to know is how to hire new staff. Hiring well isn’t half the battle, but it’s a good part of it. Firing well is probably more important. The first key point to master is to know when to hire. I have found, after doing it [...]

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Management Essentials: No Busy Work

02.27.2012 Business

“Do something to look busy.” Don’t do this. When you work with your staff, give them guidelines and encourage them, but never, ever, give “busy work.” If you tell people to look busy or create an environment in which you give out unpleasant and unnecessary tasks when there’s not enough work, you’ll end up creating [...]

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Billions Of Dollars, Theirs For The Taking

02.21.2012 Business

It’s all about sunshine. Jen was home from college the other day and when we settled into Cinema Murray to watch a movie, she said, “Have you seen Sunshine? I really liked it and would watch it again.” We had not, but it was on my list to watch. I didn’t have it in my [...]

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