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- How To Spout Effective Clichés
- What's the best thing to do if someone wakes you up from your well-deserved nap to ask you a question about the presentation you've been sleeping through? According to CNET's own Michael Kanellos, you should say, "so where's the value add?" or some other similarly inane business cliché that sounds...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Consistency, Fundamentals, And Action Lead To Sales Prosperity
- The selling profession has numerous energized individuals, yet an unbelievable amount of depressed people. Consistency can help to alleviate the ups and downs of our profession. However, there is no cliché, which prepares one for the downturn of an emotional day. How can someone regurgitate a cliché, like 'the grass...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What's Keeping You At The Office (9 Tips To Get Home Quicker)
- "Work smarter, not harder" is a cliché that has darted in and out of the workplace for years. But it's still as true as ever. And it's often overlooked advice that truly works. "Working smarter" means think strategically about how to improve your productivity. For starters, think about how you...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Deep End Of The Human Capital Pool
- Everyone pays lip service to the cliché "People are our greatest asset", and with good reason. Very little gets done in any organization without people. The right number of people with the right skills in the right place - this is the challenge every company faces, and we all know...
- White papers 2008-05-03
- How To Answer Cliche Job Interview Questions
- You might hear the noise on a regular basis: the sounds of job seekers' eyeballs rolling in their sockets as they endure yet another cliché interview question. You know the cliché questions. You've had hiring managers ask them. In fact, some of them have probably been asked since the very...
- White papers 2007-04-23
- 6 Keys To Making The Right Impression In An Interview
- The old cliché "Dress for success" holds a lot of truth to it. How you appear can say a lot about you, your attitude, and your professionalism. A suit is not always the best option, so think of it this way: dress one level above what you would be wearing...
- White papers 2006-11-07
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- How To Escape From Bankruptcy Foreclosures?
- While the phrase what is old is new again is a thoroughly worn out clich, it has become a clich because it is oft repeated and it is oft repeated because there is a great deal of truth and reality found within the words that comprise the phrase. In the...
- White papers 2007-10-11
- 2009: Rambus' Year to Shine
- Prufrock submits: A watched pot never boils. So goes the cliché. But, we all know that it’s not true. It just seems like it will never boil. If enough heat is applied, the teapot will whistle. Another cliché goes like this: never invest in a litigation stock. While this can...
- External links 2009-03-16
- Coping with Office Politics
- You’ve heard the old saying that, who you know matters as much as what you know. Even more important, and not as clichéd: Who likes you counts a great deal in getting ahead in most organizations.When you think about it, a workplace really is a series of interconnected relationships—we get...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Dealing with a Customer Incident
- It’s definitely a moment of tension: A customer is unhappy, perhaps irate, and is seeking both attention and satisfaction. Or perhaps a customer has suffered a major setback, perhaps from a storm or fire—and the customer is looking to you to rescue his business. If a company employee tries to...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Crankypants In the Workplace
- Well, the cliché turns out to be true. Bad apples do spoil the barrel. Researchers at the University of Washington’s Business School have released a new study on bad apples in the workplace and found that negative attitudes, chronic unhappiness, and combative co-workers ruin the work environment for everyone. So...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Startups: How To Compete With Your Customers
- Before we go too much further, let me explain a bit furtherwhat I mean when I say competing with customers . Although theconcept sounds like it should be controversial (which startup in their rightmind would want to compete with its customers?), it really isnt. What I mean by competing with customers ...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- What Makes a Brand Authentic?
- Fast Company has a nice article outlining why authenticity is the benchmark to judge brands. It calls out several brands for their shortcomings, including the clichés Chevy Silverado, the fakes Cold Stone Creamery, and the Johnny-Come-Latelies (Levi's). So what do you need to be authentic? Here's a quick run down from...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Rules for Marketing
- I’ve been a little hard on Marketing lately, so I thought it would be a good time to be helpful and provide some Really Useful Rules for Marketing to Follow. To keep it real, I’ll present a brief case study based upon my decades of experience in high tech,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Find the Money to Fund Your MBA
- Once you've decided that your job and your life can survive your return to school, you need to answer this question: Can I/we afford it? Graduate degrees don't come cheap. According to Forbes.com, the average cost of earning an MBA is $100,000. Now, the university I'll be attending is considerably...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Making Your Cover Letter Sparkle
- When applying for jobs, you should always include a cover letter with your résumé. Your cover letter is your first impression, so it needs to be well-crafted. It should briefly but clearly communicate what job you are applying for, what skills qualify you for the position, and why you want...
- Articles 2007-10-23
- Meet the Meeting Miser
- Meeting Miser, a handy new time management tool for BNET users to track time spent - or wasted - in meetings. The Miser runs a tab of your meeting's actual cost. Track the true cost of meetings It's a cliché in every workplace: Meetings...
- Articles 2007-11-03
- Rebranding At A Deeper Level
- Too often companies perceive rebranding as a shallow cosmetic exercise. New PMS colour here, tweak of the logo there and throw in some nice TV ads. Done deal? Not so, in order to compete, be differentiated and sustain a competitive advantage organisations need to push the brand much deeper to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Value-added Selling?
- Value-added, this word is used so much that it has become a cliché in business circles. There may not be a business in the world that doesn't claim to be a "value-added" seller. As economy has grown more complex and competitive, the demands of the customer and their subsequent definitions...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Marketers Don't Build Brands Consumers Do
- As with many such subjects in the public domain, both clichés and misconceptions abound which need to be clarified if one is able to truly appreciate what brands can mean to develop markets? For this reason, brands too have attracted some of the controversial attention that advertising itself draws. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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