If your company went public and you made a large sum but not super-large, say $5 million, would you give any to family & friends? Why/why not? How about if you made $20 million? $100 million?
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What are situations where you want to use in-person communication?
I'm writing a tip for the book on when to communicate in person, versus electronically. What are some situations where you would shy away from electronic communication and want to go face-to-face or by-phone? I'm doing this as a list of bullet points, so brevity is...
Can you give me (audio) examples of criticism?
I'm writing a Get-it-Done Guy episode on criticism. I'd love to include some listener examples of criticism you've received in your own voice. It needs to be pretty short, and suitable for family listening. Real examples are preferred. For instance, "You just don't...
What systems do you have that are worse than the problem?
I'm writing a tip on solutions getting to be more complicated than the problem they are meant to solve. For example, I once bought clips to clip together similar pairs of socks during the laundry. Dealing with the darned clip turned out to be a lot more hassle than...
From sole practitioner to organization guy
On Twitter, I've recently alluded to my new job. I've started working at Babson College helping to facilitate a community-wide re-examination of Babson's capabilities, strategy, and future direction. I will then be helping to implement the community's recommendations....
From sole practitioner to organization guy
On Twitter, I've recently alluded to my new job. I've started working at Babson College helping to facilitate a community-wide re-examination of Babson's capabilities, strategy, and future direction. I will then be helping to implement the community's recommendations....
How do we know the real reason behind our successes?
I wrote an article today on my main blog about Hillary's speech last night and whether we know the reasons for our own success. (And by the way, I'm not commenting on whether I think Hillary understands her own success. I don't know enough about her life to say one...
ARRGH!!! The book title is TAKEN!!!! HELP!
Someone—not me—is coming out with a book called "Work Less, Do More" in just a few weeks. Rats rats rats rats rats. I so loved that title. Any suggestions? I'm at a loss. Grumble. Grumble. Grumble. The way I'm thinking about it, the book is me writing to my 5-year-old...
Why no purchasers from YouAreNotYourInbox.com?
I'm stumped. We've had 500 visitors to YouAreNotYourInbox.com, from a variety of sources, and under 1% purchase from people who find the product via that page. This is what we call a "learning opportunity." If you have visited and decided not to buy, would you be...
Do “broad stroke” and highly-specific tips go together?
I'm collecting the final list of tips for the book. I'm noticing there are two categories of tips and am not sure they would work together in a book. Here are samples: Broad-strokeNarrow Use networking for your job searchName files YYYYMMDD when they contain dates...