How do you work with conflict? Some of us are really good at it and some well suck. It seems more and more that I’m in a constant state of conflict. This doesn’t mean that if they were about to go over a cliff i wouldn’t grab them. It does mean that I can be [...]
What does your body language say about you. I have a couple of tells that I know of and probably 100s that I don’t.
1. When I’m frustrated my face relaxes and I speak slower.
2. I have a forehead rub that i do when I’m done with a decision I just don’t know how to tell [...]
The older you get I think the more we all realize that we work for someone. Even if you own your own business you work for the client, the customer, the eh. It can be some what demoralizing when you come to that realization. I work for someone. When you work for someone your realize [...]
I think its hard to actually get anything accomplished in a meeting. I don’t know if that’s universal. NO. I think it is. Here is what happens in a lot of meetings I’m in. Ever person has a certain agenda. We don’t always know what that agenda is. So we spend most of the time [...]
So we are in the hiring process here at the old office. It’s a process I hate being in just as much as I hate having to do. I try not to take out my aggression on applicants. They are in the same boat that I was once in….You send in your resume hoping [...]
Praising creatives. Doesn’t seem like something you should have to do…. Aren’t these the people that have so much energy and ego that they don’t need some halfhearted thank you. I’m starting to find out that they are the most in need feedback. I think whether its positive or negative they need something.
I tried [...]
I took a small break to collect myself. That’s only part of the story. The other part of the story is that I went through a pretty stressful week before that and for some reason I continued trying to keep up on my self-imposed writing frequency. Anyway I figured I should regroup myself. Well [...]