5 Harvard B School Techniques to Get a Promotion and Raise

We had Canon CLC’s in every department. Mini portable overhead projectors on every desk. Two Apple theater displays bolted to every computer. We had it good. We were the best of the best in the tech world. We even had massage therapists come by our open desks twice a day.  But some of us were [...]

Urban Survival Guide – Taoist Wisdom by Lao Tzu

The happy traveler has no itinerary. He is not determined to arrive. The King loved will lead in such a way that his subjects will succeed then say, “we did it ourselves.” A warrior who loves the path of comfort will seek the path of least risk and desert the path of greatest reward. A [...]

The 5 Ways Workers Sabotage Your Startup The Tao of Business

3/3 Continued from: http://journik.www.youtube.com/watch?v=y13-uqJG0_Y/how-to-control-that-emotional-jerk-at-work-10 The Master stood up as if to lead me somewhere else. I stood to follow. He stopped me – saying, “wait here for me. I’ll be right back.” We were in his dojo – a large industrial warehouse. Later, I came to find that it was the training facility of deadly [...]

How To Control That Emotional Jerk at Work (10 lessons I learned from a Kung Fu Master and 5th Grade Teacher – work in progress)

Continued from: http://journik.www.youtube.com/watch?v=y13-uqJG0_Y/how-to-control-that-emotional-jerk-at-work-10 In my culture, a Kung Fu Master is not just someone who has the ability to kick your ass while sipping green tea while levitating. A Kung Fu Master, whether they be a deadly immortal or a panda is also one who has mastered the mind and spirit along with the body. I [...]

How To Control That Emotional Jerk at Work (10 lessons I learned from a Kung Fu Master and 5th Grade Teacher)

I was the kid who made all the other kids laugh in the 5th grade. It was mostly about something Mrs. Grantham said or did. I loved putting her on the spot. I loved getting all the attention from all the other kids. I loved feeling special. I was a jerk. Mrs. Grantham didn’t seem [...]

New Seattle Tweetup at Bathtub Gin & Co #bathtubtweetup

Have you ever tried to organize a tweetup? The hardest part is getting people to come to a place they’ve never been. So, let’s just streamine the process and cut out the entire behavior changing part and have a tweetup at Bathtub Gin. We all know where it is. We are all early adopters. We’ve [...]

How to Force Clients to Pay You – Lessons In Collecting I Learned From My Girlfriends

I’m glad women occasionally stalk me back. One of these girls was dripping beautiful. She was half Irish, half Spanish, half divine. She grew up mostly naked before Cabo San Lucas became a tourist trap. She’d wake up in the morning, jump out of bed, and run 20 paces to dive into the Sea of [...]

How to Manage Your Boss or Parents – An Owners Manual for Employees and Kids

You’ve heard me talking about how important it is to share wisdom. Wisdom reduces the time and the distance between where you are and where you want to go. But people always think of wisdom or a having an owner’s manual as a hierchical thing. People think of wisdom as something directional where the people [...]

How to Get to Google Page One Fast

It’s no mystery how to get to Google’s page one for any search. All you need are people to link to you using that key word you want to pop-up in Google. The mystery is how to get people to link to you. With everyone’s short attention span how do you get them to link [...]

Why Corporations Fail at Social Media Marketing

I’ve never understood “the pitch.” Sure, I’ve been CD for several ad agencies and PR firms. But I’ve never understood “the pitch.” You show up, you state why you should get “the account” and the prospect tries to blow holes in your “pitch (not in a good way).” I’ve always been the kind of guy [...]