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Archive for July, 2010

Change The Game

Seriously, how long are you going to continue to just be told how to do things in your life? From how you are educated to how you are forced to work. Just because the systems have not caught up with the times does not mean you should be held back too.

Jason Fried

37Signals

ReWork the book

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Being Social

Why not drive the conversation by participating in it v. trying to control it.

Gary Vaynerchuk on social media being steak not pepper

Ford Uses Social Media To Unveil 2011 Explorer

ROWE + Tell Us Why Work Sucks

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Death, Time Zones, & Creative Employees

OK, I admittedly get a little excited during this blog post. However, when I find myself in conversations about changing the way we are forced to work, I often leave out some of the most common absurdities found in a lot of organizations. What do you think?

And yes, that is my wife Justine, being all stealth-like behind me.

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Be Productive

How often have you heard workplace comments about where you should be, when you can go, what time you came in, how long your lunch was…WHERE ARE YOU!!!!

Next time you hear any of those, simply respond, “I’m being productive.” (it helps if you actually are, though)

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