Author: Jason Finnerty
Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek
Unless you are running on a different clock than the rest of us, you only have 168 hours to do what you need to do each week. Figure at least 29% of that has to be used for sleep, and another 6% just for eating. So that leaves you aboutRead More
Who Is Your Mentor?
There are some things that you knew how to do from the moment you arrived on this planet. Eating – yup, sleeping – yup, and a few other related “projects”. But for everything else you do, you had to learn by watching or listening to someone else. You might haveRead More
Are You Getting Paid Enough? Do a Salary Comparison
Sure, it sounds like the start of a hokey pyramid scheme – but unless your office is very transparent about salaries, it’s hard to know if you are in the top, middle, or bottom of what you should be earning. Money isn’t everything, and you’ve been able to help yourRead More
How Do You Handle Layoff Rumors?
You’re at work and you accidentally overhear a conversation between your boss and his boss. You learn that they need to lay off one person in your division in order for the company to stay viable. They’ve got to decide between laying you off or laying off your teammate. YourRead More
Fast Recipes for Work #2: Cup o’ Chocolate Cake
Here’s another of my favorite fast recipes. How many times have you been slaving away at the computer, trying to squeeze in that last bit of code, those final tweaks to the copy, or the final lines in your design when you were struck with an overwhelming urge for chocolateRead More
What Are You Doing to Impress Your Customers?
What do you do to show your current clients the difference between you and your competition? There seem to be two schools of thought on this topic: Do an excellent job on exactly what the client is looking for; Do a good job on the project, and provide additional valueRead More
Is This an Invasion of Privacy?
What would you do if you came across some files that you shouldn’t have access to?