Which is the best form of motivation – cash or gift?

I read recently Jeff Atwood’s post on Computer Workstation Ergonomics and I realized that I really didn’t know a lot of things that were important for my health. For the last couple of months I started working at home and I work the worst possible way – I sit in my bed holding with my [...]

Here is a great story, which I borrowed from Paolo Coelho’s blog. It has a lot in common with our corporate relationships, the way we make our career and follow our mentors. The hunter’s apprentice An old hunter of foxes, considered to be the best in the region, decided finally to retire. He gathered together [...]

Seth Godin posted recently two short posts about the toxic employees and the toxic bosses. While I agree that the existence of toxic employees is mostly a management’s fault, I think sometimes they just don’t know that some of their employees are “toxic”. Тhey communicate with them from the distance of their position in the [...]

I love birthdays. It’s great when close and distant relatives, friends, or colleagues call you to wish you nice things, when they give you interesting presents, and in the evening, when you celebrate the end of the day with the closest of them eating delicious food and drinking your favorite drinks. But there comes a [...]

In the Secrets of the Job Hunt blog I read a simple but astonishing with its brutal frankness and truthfulness sentence: People quit their boss, not their job. Nothing more to add. If you like my blog, my writing style, or my point of view, to guarantee that you won’t miss a publication, subscribe to [...]

Yesterday I saw a great post in Penelope Trunk’s blog – 10 ways to make people hate you at work. She presents a very colorful list of ways to be nasty. You should read it. My favorite one is “Being obsessed with your workload” and I an going to share some thoughts about it. I [...]

Guy Kawasaki posted in his blog an interesting interview with Penelope Trunk about The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace. She recently has posted a similar article in her Yahoo! Finance blog – The Worst Career Advice Parents Can Offer, which caused a wave of irate comments from offended parents. Her advises definitely have some [...]

Yesterday I found an interesting post from Pamela Slim’s blog entitled Try “unwork” to cut your tasks in half and double your income where she claims that the notion “Work more to make more money” is outdated and in fact brings us away from happiness. I was very surprised. I have many books about improving [...]

I haven’t thought about what makes a presentation good or bad until I read the blog posts by Seth Godin’s blog post Really Bad Powerpoint and Guy Kawasaki’s The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. After reading these and other blog posts and articles I started to realize that I have participated at many bad presentations. This [...]