When I read Michael Ausiello’s recent interview with Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, two things impressed me. Not what’s going to happen to Gilmore Girls now that the show’s creators have left. Not who fans will blame. Not what will happen in the show’s storyline.
What I noticed was about Dan and Amy:
Lidor Wyssocky talks about the dark side of professionalism. I was going to just leave a quick comment. But this subject brings so many thoughts, I could blog for a week just on these alone. Even narrowing the subject down to the most important point, it deserves a full blog post. So here it is.
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What’s the largest number of people you’ve embarrassed yourself in front of?
If you recall, last week I was waiting for my case of wine to be delivered. The business to which I had it delivered was open and staffed all week. But on Monday and Tuesday, FedEx’s tracking said, “Delivery exception: Customer not available or business closed,” which was just wrong.
If I knew two years ago how to be a toxic employee, the knowledge would have saved me much grief.
My adventure started when Wine.com sent me a special offer. I had ordered a couple cases from them last year. I drink a glass of red wine every night. At first, it was an attempt to reduce my blood pressure. Didn’t work. But I did discover wine enthusiasm. I’m now a wine geek, or at least a wanna-be wine geek. (Can you be a true wine geek on less than $15 a bottle?)
According to MONEY Magazine and Salary.com, the best thing to be in America is a software engineer. What’s so great about being a software engineer?
-TimK
First, go watch this video about how one of Apple’s lawyers stuck it to the feelings of a little girl.
Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, most people just don’t know how to be leaders. The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn to be a leader. You can start with these 8 beginner’s errors that can sabotage your efforts as a leader.
I’ve resigned from a job only once. That doesn’t count the part-time jobs I had in high school and college. I also resigned from two of those, to go on to career-enhancing positions. But there was only one real job I resigned from, and only one I resigned from because I didn’t fit in.