Out of the Cubicle & Into the Corner Office Blog

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18- Email productivity: 4 tips for managing your inbox

Do you find it difficult to manage you email? Throughout my childhood, I was fortunate enough to travel with my parents to various places where I met other kids my own age. As a classic “Type A,” I wanted to keep in touch with these new friends and hear about their lives, schooling, and hobbies. Unfortunately, the internet was not yet available to the average American household and long distance telephone rates were as high...

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17- Use different perspectives to advance your career

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye- Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost Success. It’s all about perspective. Which of these pictures do you find to be the most beautiful? Both pictures are beautiful to different people. Each viewer approaches the pictures from his or her own experiences and preconceived notions of beauty. For example, if you are a person who associates cherry blossoms with a fond memory of playing t-ball in a park, you might...

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16- Follow Lewis & Clark: Goal Setting

Goal setting can be a stressful and challenging task if you don’t know what you want or where to start. Achieving your goals can be as easy, or as complicated, as you want it to be. In this blog, I will share a few of my notes on achieving goals. The three most important considerations in setting and achieving your goals are alignment of day-to-day tasks, focus on the goal, and a strong support system...

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15- 6 Steps to Being a Good Audience Member

How often have you presented or attended a presentation and looked around the room to find people working on their iPad or checking email on their phone? Being a good audience member is a trait that you can use to build respect in your industry. When I speak to a group, whether it is 5 people, or 500, I look for friendly faces in the audience. These people are easy to spot as I present....

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14- 4 Reasons to update your resume today

    When was the last time you updated your resume? If you are like most people, you haven’t updated your resume since the last time you were looking for a new job, or the marketing department was updating company resumes for proposal purposes. This may have been a month ago, or two years ago, and chances are, it was difficult for you to capture all of the relevant information on your resume because you...

High-speed cameras & rain drops

Very cool study on raindrops, hopefully one day we will know exactly why rain smells amazing! Until then, at least we know that it releases “bacteria, pathogens, and contaminants.” Read about it here: https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-0114

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13- 3 Tips for Great Lunch Conversation

The questions “Why you should eat with your co-workers?”, “Who to eat with?”, and “Where to eat?” were answered in previous posts. Now, you may be wondering, “What should I talk about during the meal?” Eating with your colleagues is perhaps the best opportunity to build your relationships and give and provide feedback on a variety of work and non-work related issues. If you google “what not to talk about at work,” you will find...

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12- Avoiding Check Chicken

In the last few posts, you learned 1) why it is so important to eat with your co-workers, 2) that it doesn’t matter where you eat, and 3) to be genuine in your discussions during the meal. This post will address the controversial topic of “who pays the check” if you do elect to go out to eat at a restaurant and not in the office. When two cars race toward each other, the first...

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Found: An Ancient Metal Alloy – Orichalcum

While searching the wreckage of a ship that sank 2,600 years ago, divers found 39 ingots of orichalcum, an ancient brass-like metal alloy that, according to Plato’s Critias Dialogue, covered citadel walls on Atlantis. Makes me wonder how many other forgotten treasures lay in the vastly-unexplored Oceans. Read more from Discovery News here.