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The Now Strategy

March 31, 2008 at 8:40 pm · Filed under Success/Career & Techniques

Greys Anatomy

I was reminded of a scene in Grey’s Anatomy where Chief of Surgeon Richard has applauded McSteamy about his “Now” strategy instead of the overly impressive 10 year plan of most attending surgeons vying for the top position.

Sometimes we lose sight of our immediate and pressing problems because we spend a lot of time thinking so far ahead building long term plans and strategies.

Building long term plans is fine as long as our “Now” strategy is given enough attention and continues to improve things around us.

image source here.

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External Actions Define Your Career Not Your Intentions

March 31, 2008 at 10:12 am · Filed under Management & Leadership, Success/Career & Techniques

People judge, assess and create your corporate persona based on your external actions; your corporate persona defines your career.

Corporate Management

External actions and not your good intentions is who you are at face value.

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Work Life Balance is Overrated

March 23, 2008 at 1:04 am · Filed under Success/Career & Techniques, Work and Life Balance

I have previously written a post on Work Life Balance and for the past two years I have been a big fan of this concept.

Perspectives change over time, and now I am beginning to feel how overrated Work Life Balance is. How can you beat someone who spends at least 14 hours a day 7 days a week honing his craft?

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Work Hard and Booze Hard

March 13, 2008 at 4:01 pm · Filed under Management & Leadership, Success/Career & Techniques, Work and Life Balance

SharePoint Conference 2008

I had a lot of fun in Seattle and the picture above was taken in the Whisky Bar with US SharePoint Architects and Project Managers on-shore. We partied a lot during the week long conference and worked hard during the day.

I remember one of the stories of a colleague a few years back about one of their top executives who saw employees who can party and drink a lot of booze until the wee hours of the night and get to the office the following day by 8 am as those that has the “it” factor to climb on top of the corporate ladder.

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Back in Seattle for SharePoint Conference 2008

March 4, 2008 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Success/Career & Techniques

I have previously posted my attendance in SharePoint Conference 2006 and now I am here in Seattle again attending SharePoint Conference 2008.

I would be reporting about this over at Techticles.

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What to Do When You Don’t Get that Promotion?

March 4, 2008 at 6:20 pm · Filed under Success/Career & Techniques

Do not whine. The biggest mistake you can do when you don’t get promoted is to whine about it. You may not agree with what happened but whining about it especially to your boss wouldn’t change the decision and may only validate their decision not to promote you.

What to do?

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Why Would You Attack a Candidate who Turned Your Company Down?

September 24, 2007 at 11:20 am · Filed under Business, Success/Career & Techniques

TechCrunch posted about a company named PayPerPost whose VP of Development Peter Wright went on an offensive against a candidate who turned them down.

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