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6 Tips for a Better Global Team

August 4, 2009

With the advent of the Internet and the growth of International companies, building an effective team across timezones, languages and cultures is becoming increasingly more important. Gone (or perhaps going) are the days when your entire team resides on the same continent, let alone floor, and it’s becoming more common to be working with someone [...]

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What is Humor?

July 22, 2009

You hear the word humor a lot. People talk about office humor, sense of humor, a guy named Hugh Moore–but what does it really mean? Before reading on, see if you can think of the definition. Got a guess? No seriously, think of something, I’ll wait. … Ok, so the word humor, as defined by [...]

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Make Presentations Not PowerPoint Demonstrations

July 7, 2009

If you actually want to be effective in the corporate world, it’s important to learn to make presentations, not Power Point demonstrations. What’s the difference? Good question. Presentations versus Power Point If you were to go by what you see most often in the workplace, you would think presentations and Power Point were synonyms. But [...]

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Simple Presentation Tip: The Metaphor

June 22, 2009

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus One of the hardest things to do is to take a complicated idea and explain it in a simple way.  But that is in fact what many of us have to do, and those who do it well [...]

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Inspirational Quotes from A – Z

June 8, 2009

26 inspirational quotes, one from every letter of the alphabet: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle “You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?” – Richard Bach “Nothing is impossible, we just don’t know how to [...]

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Collaborating Through Yes And

June 2, 2009

Two words is all it takes to improve your team’s ability to work, think, and create together. Taken from the world of improv, they are the foundation to collaboration, cooperation, creativity and other words that start with the letter ‘c.’  What two words are they?  Yes And. The Power of Yes And The number one [...]

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5 Productivity Tips from the Stand-Up Comedy World

May 12, 2009

Unlike the corporate world, the realm of stand-up comedy is less structured and requires more personal discipline to be productive. There is no boss to assign you something to do, and there’s no one looking over your shoulder making sure you do your work. And while some comedians are blessed with the ability to just [...]

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Why Stress Isn’t a Bad Thing

May 5, 2009

I recently posted an article called Creating a Sense of Urgency that talked about how to be more productive by creating a sense of urgency for yourself to get things done. In the comments, someone asked why I was encouraging more stress, and what I meant by saying “stress isn’t always a bad thing.”  This [...]

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Creating a Sense of Urgency

April 28, 2009

One of the best tips I’ve learned for getting things done is creating a sense of urgency for my work.  If I feel like I have all day to do something, I’ll take all day to do it – it’s Parkinson’s Law (“Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion”). But if something [...]

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The Secret to Effective Presentations

April 21, 2009

We’ve all been there.  We’ve all sat down to see a presentation, and within the first 3 slides, we already know that this is going to be another boring meeting that will slowly sap us of any energy, creative ideas, and hope for humanity (ok that last one might be a bit extreme).  We’ve also [...]

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