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Help Wanted: Zookeeper with a Good Attitude.
Most job postings are dry. Really dry. And – they usually include “must haves” which require skills and/or experience with everything but being able to both plumb AND re-enamel a kitchen sink. As one hiring manager/Art Director I spoke with last week said – if any candidate ever met his team’s expectations, there …
Interesting Quotes I Found Today.
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” - Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” - Sean O’Casey (1880 – 1964) “It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most …
Oscar Wilde wrote ”There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Since I’ve found few writers able to match both his brevity and wit, I frequently turn to his writings and quotes to humorously summarize a recent (or not) happening in my life. These are just a …
Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management was originally part of a PowerPoint presentation by Bill Swanson, CEO of aerospace contractor Raytheon made to engineers and scientists at the company. Swanson later put his rules down on paper. So he did: in 3-inch-by-5-inch spiral-bound notebooks handed out to executives and customers. While some of the …
Steven Jobs, cofounder of Apple, has been labeled many things, from visionary to egomaniac. Often I think he is inspirational too: We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? Innovation is the distinction between a leader and a follower. The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t …
A t-shirt popular within the Apple Computer team building v.1 of Quicktime read “Apple: 80 hours a week, and loving it!” So much for work | life balance. At the same time, I think Steve Jobs gets a lot of things right – including not making decisions for the short term without …
