Work at Your Best Doing Your Worst!
What do you spend most of your (work) time doing? Things you’re good at? Things you’re terrible at? Or do you just spin your wheels doing things that just don’t […]
How to Succeed at Everything that Matters
Everybody wants to succeed. Success, though, rarely comes easy. Nor does it happen overnight. We often hear about overnight success stories, certain companies or individuals thrown into the limelight, having […]
You Won’t Learn A Thing Reading This Post
I love Reno, but we’re not exactly a hub of technological excitement. The tech industry here is growing, but I can’t say we have a substantial pool of SEO-savvy job […]
How Easy Could This Be? UnSubscribe Me!
Last month I posted about Barnes & Nobles tedious process for unsubscribing from their email newsletters. It was so complex that I honestly couldn’t even figure out why I was […]
Six Ways to Create a More Productive Work Environment
Creating a great office environment isn’t the sole responsibility of the PIC — person in charge. While the business owner, managers and/or supervisors certainly have an effect based on their […]
Managing Projects Through People
Management can be a tricky thing. Many companies promote people to management / supervisory positions based on their knowledge of the job and ability to get things done. But management […]
If You're Not As Sucessful As You'd Like you Might be 'M' issing Something
Success isn’t always easy to achieve. Of course, to different people success may mean many different things. For some, success means owning a business for themselves, to others it means […]
Dealing With Office Losers, Suckups and Flakes Can Be A B*tch.
Negativity in the work place can be like a bad virus. When working with a small team, it’s important that you nip negativity in the bud as early as possible. […]
Full RSS or Summarry Feed?
I’m not the first one to chime in on this topic, mostly because I’ve gone both ways and I can make pretty valid arguments from either side. But I’ve finally […]
Politics and Advertising: Do They Mix?
I don’t have a problem with political ads. In fact, I think the whole campaign finance reform issue is ill conceived and does the opposite of what we really want. […]
Hello! I Could Use a Little Team Effort Here!
I’ve discussed a great deal about our team here at Pole Position Marketing, but only because we have such a fantastic crew of marketing professionals, that bragging about them is […]
10 Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership
The world isn’t always a nice place and the competitive nature of the work environment can sometimes be brutal. Many people in the business world have a “succeed at all […]
Ideas are Vital to Success: Eliminate Employee Reluctance to Suggest Them
One of my pet peeves in the office is walking out into the main work area and asking a question meant for everyone, only to have it met with resounding […]
Guidelines for Pre-Employment Interview
Recently I got a hold of a 2006 AAEE Job Search Handbook from a friend of mine. Thumbing through it I thought this information would be helpful to businesses as […]
It's not About Making Lemonade out of Lemons, Its About Turning Ice Cream into an Ice Cream Sundae!
Encouragement and motivation go hand in hand. If you want your employees or team mates to be motivated to work harder, better, faster, more productively, etc., etc. then you need […]