Archive for 'Self Management'
When Being Different is No Longer Different
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Last week I was wandering around a Barnes & Noble bookstore perusing the business titles when I noticed a trend. Instead of books titled around understandable topics like management, leadership, marketing, and strategy, there were hosts of books with oddball titles…most notably: How to Castrate a Bull. Now I know why authors and publishers do [...]
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The Healthy Balance Between Expendable and Indispensability
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Today my son Dustin starts his first job at Burger King. Now that I have a kid in the workforce, my workforce advice has a true captive audience and I’ve got very high expectations. My list of advice was long: Show up early Find out exactly what you need to do and get it done [...]
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“You’re Not That Special” Graduation Speech – 2012
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How to Build a Rocket Ship (for those who know nothing about rockets)
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Last night I watched an interesting interview on 60 Minutes of SpaceX founder and CEO Ian Musk. He’s a 40-year-old entrepreneur who founded PayPal and then sold it to eBay. He rolled that money into his current company which is founded on his passion to travel into space. Now this guy is an interesting character. [...]
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Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Book #14 of 52 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking written by Susan Cain is a book that caught my eye in an airport book store. I’m a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner so I was immediately intrigued. Cain is an introvert and writes this book from her [...]
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Creating a Legacy Your Descendents Will Brag About
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
The other night I watched a commercial promoting ancestry.com. Most of these feature people who find, serendipitously, that they are related to somebody famous. I’ve also heard people talk about how they can “channel” their great ancestors who were famous warriors or other ancient celebrities. Nobody it seems is related to average, regular people. In [...]
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How to be a Valuable, Problem-Solver
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I’m writing this post at 25,000 feet on a flight from Baltimore to San Antonio. While waiting for us to get past 10,000 feet so I could turn on my MacBook Air to do some work, I picked up the ever-present SkyMall catalog. If you’ve never seen one of these, they’re really quite amazing. Everything [...]
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Corporate Gray Job Fair – Malcolm’s Presentation Notes
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Greetings! If you attended my workshop and want the speaker’s notes you can get them by clicking Corporate Gray Job Fair handouts Stay in touch! Malcolm Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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The Best Way to Learn? Hands-on!
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What’s the best way to learn a new task? You can learn the background, the theory, the technical details…or you can just jump in. In the Navy, the training mantra was “See on, do one, teach one” which worked well. Military folks can do tasks that civilians need certifications to do. I even put a [...]
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Reliablity (revisited)
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Recently I blogged on being reliable as part of a series on How to Be Taken Seriously. I can’t stress this principle enough. This morning, for the umpteenth time, my wife’s personal trainer from the Healthtrax Gym in Germantown (we’ll call him Jasper) texted her late at night while she was sleeping to let her [...]
