I have a captivating, deep voice; it's one thing I will tell people about myself without fear of sounding that I am full of myself. When it comes to communicating on the phone, very few can top me in how...
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You Work in A Business, Not an Inferiority Complex
I often wondered what was worse, someone having a superiority complex or an inferiority complex. Today, I no longer wonder. With superiority complexes, the market generally responds by pushing out the person or company who feels superior if their product...
What are You Doing Here? and other Small Town Disease comments
In business and in our personal lives, we often encounter people who I previously referred to as suffering from one of the worst STD's you can catch - Small Town Disease. For review, small town disease is an affliction which...
Are You Guilty of The New No?
A startling trend over the past few years has developed that I call "The New No". The New No occurs when someone you already have a pre-existing relationship/affiliation with is asked to do something or be involved in something, and...
Your Next Job May Be For Yourself – Become an Entrepreneur in Latham
There comes points in our lives when many of us realize that the best job we can have is to work for ourselves. While this doesn't mean you have to give up the job search, having your own business allows...
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, Mr. Spock and 2-Dimensional Thinking
Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer recently issued the memo that essentially removed the rights of Yahoo employees to work from home and created a policy to require all workers to work from headquarters. As a manager of a virtual workforce that...
Mountains Out of Molehills
One of my grandmother's favorite sayings was that you shouldn't "make mountains out of molehills." In business, very often HR departments and/or managers will blow things way out of proportion because they don't like a specific behavior of an employee...
Applying The Adjunct Professor Model to The Workplace
The adjunct professor plays a critical role at many universities. Business professionals with a variety of expertise are brought in to teach subjects that require subject matter expertise or to fill roles that cannot be filled by existing faculty. Many...
Being Successful at Virtual Work in an Internship
Being a virtual intern can be an exercise in futility if one lacks imagination, initiative and intuition. Listen in to one of our latest podcasts on how to be an effective virtual intern, and how to create your "Resume From...
Tips for Dealing with Workplace Negativity
By: Katrina Schwarz, Braathe Enterprises Virtual Intern Everyone has to deal with negative people at some point. How you go about dealing with such people in the workplace can affect the atmosphere for everyone, so it's wise to proceed with...