Derek Neighbors of Gangplank walks through the Getting Things Done (GTD) process and how it can transform your ‘to-do list’. GTD is a workflow process to gain control over all the tasks and commitments that one needs or wants to get done, and “6 different levels of focus” to provide them with useful perspective.
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Getting Things Done GTD 101
I am starting a new trend in job interviews. I would not suggest you start doing this, unless you have the goods to back it up. LOL
No suits for interviews anymore.
I have always been told, you have to wear a suit when you interview for a job. I can understand this when we were back in the Madmen days. When people wore suits getting their mail . If you were the average dude in those days, a man of distinction you wore a suit. If you went to church you wore a suite. A night on the town you wore a suit. You travelled on a plane you wore a suit, EVERYONE wore a suit.
Now when do you wear a suit? On the day you are married and the day you die. When you travel you have your best sweat pants on. If your sister is getting married she is lucky if you wear a tie. Go spend a day in a courtroom, only the attorney’s are wearing suits. The guy before the judge, 20 years ago he wore a suit, today he is wearing Fubu.
In 20 years do you think the 40 year old IT manager with 30 holes in his ears and is sporting neck tattoos is going to roll up wearing something from the Men’s Warehouse. I don’t see that happening. It will be like trying to find a president who has not inhaled.
I want to send a message to all the job hirer’s.
I want them to see me how I will look when I roll in at 7:30.
If they choose to not hire me, because I did not wear a suit. Well that is shallow thinking, while many may choose to not hire me because of this, I do not want to work for them. I am tired of working for small minded people who think diversity stops at the color of my skin or where I was born.
I do not want to be hired because of who I present myself to be, but who I am. I do not want the job because I wore a suit. LOL I once was on an interview committee. One individual decided he would not hire the college kid because his suit was baggy and he didn’t know our stock price. I was like, umm, he won’t wear the suit again since we are a company with a casual dress code. We are not hiring people to stress over and lookup our stock price, this is not a middle management position. This person who felt this way no longer works for this company, but is now a CEO of a large sized company.
I want to work for a company who choose to hire me, in spite of the fact I wore no suit. I forced them to either show me they had no clue as how to find creative, talented people or to actually try to find out if I am a creative, talented individual who would be a great fit for their company.
What are your thoughts?
Free range
Ways to improve your performance:
•Compete for a prize
•Earn points
•Please a demanding boss
•Make someone else’s imminent deadline
•Face sudden death elimination in the playoffs
•Wear a heart monitor and track performance publicly
•Go head-to-head against a determined foe
The thing is, all of these ….click and read …
I have been reading Chris’s site for about a year now. I found his book on living a life of non-conformity while researching write a personal manifesto. His 29 page book on world domination got me wanting more.
His book on living a life of non-conformity is one of the few books I have purchased due to reading a free ebook. Once I started reading it, much of what he said is what I tell many of my clients when I coach or mentor them. Here it is in a nutshell;
I have started telling clients to read it and execute on the steps within the pages of his fine book The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
Take some time this week and read the free book or buy and read the life of non-conformity. It isn’t filled with a bunch of garbage, it has real nuggets of simple wisdom formulated in an intriguing easy to read manner.
I have an account with First Premier. Today when I was trying to make a payment on one of my accounts I started getting horrible error exception messages.
Here is an example.
System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. —> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. —> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Net.PooledStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Net.Connection.SyncRead(HttpWebRequest request, Boolean userRetrievedStream, Boolean probeRead)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.HttpWebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at _app.cardinfoservicesProxy.GetNextPostingDateWithDate(BaseInputPacket oInputPacket) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\FirstPremierOnlineServiceFactory\BridgeAndProxyCode.VB:line 582
at _app.cardinfoservicesBridge.GetNextPostingDateWithDate(BaseInputPacket oInputPacket) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\FirstPremierOnlineServiceFactory\BridgeAndProxyCode.VB:line 1379
Since I currently manage and have worked in web application security in the past, i know this is not good. LOL I now know their directory structure. I know they are calling a webservice when I click to make a payment and when I try to access additional functionality that I got a similar message with. I know since they have not set their machine.config attribute to retail=true there is at least one exploit their server is vulnerable to. That with the fact I have a direct path for their directory structure….
Now I wanted to send an email to First Premier, but guess what? They only have phone numbers in their help section. I know that is a 20 minute wait. I just wanted to send a quick note saying I was attempting to do “y” and I got these errors, something is not right here. I am assuming I am one of a few hundred customers today with this issue. This issue puts their company at risk, my identity at risk and they may not know they have this exposure?
Yes if you make it easy for me to connect with you, which means your customer WILL connect with you.
Why would you not want that? Why would you not want to leverage me as someone that will say, hey you are having an issue. Thanks I love your service, help I am having this problem.
If you do not make it easy to interact with me, then that means I will ONLY interact with you when my patience has hit a boiling point. It also means I will probably as in the place of First Premier, just move on down the road. You then have lost a customer, you don’t know why. You can keep on churnings as you always have, yet wonder why your customer is growing while you are receding. maybe they have an email address on their website, listen to tweets, and engage in social media to interact with their customers.
Maybe they have a clue. Content is no longer king in a Web 2.0 world. Interaction is king. Engage me where I am at, and may it easy for me to engage you anyway I choose. This will allow you to leverage customers as assets beyond paying their bills, but making them a part of your organization looking out for you in the mean streets of the internet. LOL
