Modern corporate environments demand new forms of personal sacrifice (bit). Make an ultimate sacrifice by naming your child as your company name (tip).
Examples: <Your Company Name>ina, <Your Company Name>in, <Your Company Name>a with generic catchalls Companin and Companina.
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Customer Facing skills are important (bit). What equally important are Support Facing skills (tip).
Support facing skills are vital to get the best response from support and manage customer support expectations (what they expect from you, what you expect from them you already know). One way to learn support facing skills in relatively mild manner is by purchasing your company product while you are still employed (especially in support).
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Some employees rush to connect on Linkedin to many colleagues as possible (bit). Don’t rush, connect slowly from time to time in order to remind about your existence (tip).
This is because new connections are visible in updates you remind about your existence not only to a new connectee but to all previously connected people.
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Some employees do not like their office space or complain privately when streamed (bit). If you happen to be one of them justify this misfortune as having a free office (tip).
You can’t get a nice office for free. Certainly, if you want to have a good office you have to pay for it. Alternatively, employ the novel BYOOS method: Bring You Own Office Space.
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It’s important to see signs of the approaching troubles from any possible angle including social media like Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter (bit). For example, if your company or someone from the hierarchy above you follows you on Twitter monitor that to catch the moment when that account stops following you (tip).
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Research shows that employee productivity rises for the next 30 minutes after receiving salary increase or a bonus (bit). Condition this timing for an employee to have the maximum impact (tip).
For example, in these 30 minutes an employee may generate an idea that secures a company’s future success or ensures that a project finishes on time with less budget.
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A person or a company who makes a service request will feel the lack of attention to details and respect if you write a much shorter service response with less detail (bit). Spend or at least show that you spent equivalent amount of time and resources analyzing and answering a request. In some cases (technical support, for example) involving reciprocal request / response interactions you can explicitly promise to spend the same amount of time if you request a time consuming reproduction environment that helps you in troubleshooting or problem artifact analysis (tip).
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Sometimes you are asked to state or put down on paper what you feel, for example, during performance reviews (bit). If you want to avoid discussing the topic politely reply with a smile that you are a machine that doesn’t feel (tip).
Sometimes, it is good to be a machine.
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Previously announced book (publication date is 1st of September, 2010) now got preliminary front and back covers.
Front cover:
Back cover:
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Some embarrassing spelling errors come from resulting semantic metaphors (bit). Develop a habit of checking initial and last letters of typed words (tip).
For example, passthrough and look at your issue.
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