Jul
22
Networking Events: Some Are Not Worth It
July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Situation:
With a networking event I mean those by open invitation, where you pay a small fee for a couple of hours of chit-chat with fellow networkers and spill out your 30 second elevator speech hundreds of times while guzzling appetizers and drinking cheap wine (others describe it similarly). If you are lucky, the [...]
Jul
9
Flexible Time Pittfalls
July 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Many companies give their employees the option to work a flexible time schedule instead of a 9 to 5 one. This is all good when the company operates in extended business hours (as in 7 to 7 or nights and weekends). However, for the traditional business world that still runs on a 9 to [...]
Jun
22
Cronus and TGIF
June 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Day in and day out, I see messages on Twitter and Facebook that wish the Work-Week was over, Thank God It is Friday (TGIF) or show disgust at the start of another Work-Week. It almost feels as if people wanted time to go very fast just so that Friday will be here and they [...]
