A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry’s earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow. …The employee, who was working at a Toyota factory in central Japan, died of irregular […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
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What’s the cash value of your network? The folks at XING.com (a business social networking resource like LinkedIn) have come up with a methodology that requires but 5 minutes of your time. Click here: mynetworkvalue.com Oh and mine? $1,222,000. High for my age and field. Hooray for me! If you […]
Your skills and your talents are not the same. Skills may come naturally or they may be acquired with work. Talents may come naturally to the surface or they may need to be cultivated and set loose. Your needs are not the same as your passions. There may be some […]
Tests and Measures Some people are born knowing what they want to do, and even how to do it. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. …What do you want? The majority of us go through life, often very successfully, without ever asking, much less answering, this most basic question. […]
Among your outside advisors, your account is likely to have the greatest impact on the success or failure of your business. — Jacquelyn Lynn in Start Your Own Restaurant (and Five Other Food Businesses) (Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Ups).
Once you have a picture of how you want your life to be, and you come to the realization that it’s more than just things to have and things to do, once you realize that what you and I really want is to have the room, the openness, to expand, […]
Principle 1 Your customer is your paycheck. Don’t be fooled by the signature at the bottom of your payroll check — the guy who signed the check didn’t put the money there — your customers did. No customers, no money. You should change your customer greeting to “Hi, thanks for […]