I worked at a consulting firm that used “benefit of the doubt” as an excuse for any kind of bad behavior. Someone flubs: Benefit of the doubt. Someone stabs you in the back: Benefit of the doubt. Someone says they’ll do something, then they don’t: Benefit of the doubt.
“Benefit of the doubt” at that place [...]
Here’s a fascinating graphical view of CEO pay as a multiple of average worker pay from 1970 to 2005. Check out the site to see a rollover of the pay multiple as the years progress.
The Yoda Part
In Accomplishment is What Matters, Chris Brogan writes:
In all transactions in your professional life, the weight of things will likely rest on whether or not you accomplished what you set out to achieve. Did you get the project completed on time? If the answer is no (with subtext of “because Jerry called out [...]
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Three Quick Things I Already Learned from the Survey
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Years ago I worked in a consulting firm where a guy working in our department of a few men and scores of women accidentally hit “Send to All” on Lotus Notes. That would have been fine if his note had been about company business. But you already can guess. His note was about his weekend [...]
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