Management Bits and Tips

7 or 8 Signs That You Have an Extraordinary Employee

Dmitry Vostokov — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:21:36 +0000

wrote several books
reads lots of books
has several blogs
founded a discipline
founded a company
published many ideas
has a lot of unpublished ideas
still an employee

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 4)

Dmitry Vostokov — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:58:35 +0000

“In politics it is better to appear like having a short memory.”

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How to talk about God on Job Interview

Dmitry Vostokov — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:31:37 +0000

You can mention God a few times and will not violate the separation of workplace and religion by simply using a word ‘dog’ as a testing example for your string reversal algorithm you just designed and currently explaining on a blackboard before an interviewer. The latter might even think that you are addressing h(im)er.

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Management Bit and Tip 0×8000000

Dmitry Vostokov — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:24:25 +0000

Modern corporate environments demand new forms of personal sacrifice (bit). Make an ultimate sacrifice by naming your child as your company name (tip).

Examples: ina, in, a with generic catchalls Companin and Companina.

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Management Bit and Tip 0×4000000

Dmitry Vostokov — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:15:37 +0000

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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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 3)

Dmitry Vostokov — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:33:56 +0000

“80% of energy is spent to get 20% of income.”

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 2)

Dmitry Vostokov — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:59:40 +0000

“Two minds are better than one… if each one has a separate activity.”

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 1)

Dmitry Vostokov — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:12:06 +0000

With the age come aphorisms. So I start with the first one:

“Empty office is the best office.”

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ECHO Stages of Corporate Citizenship

Dmitry Vostokov — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:14:31 +0000

One of the outcomes of the reading of a book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (by Guy Debord) is the possible evolution of feelings of a corporate citizen where the last stage corresponds to a spectator:

ECHO

Enthusiasm
Confusion
Hating
Onlooking

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Management Bit and Tip 0×2000000

Dmitry Vostokov — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:44:48 +0000

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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