Kent Blumberg

Thursday links

Carmine Coyote starts us off this week with an essay on real work/life balance.  Julie Lenzer Kirk chimes in with her thoughts on the responsibility of the company owner/CEO for creating an environment that fosters balance.  And staying for a bit on the balance topic, I used Linked In Answers to query my network for ideas to help me with the radio show last week.  Heather Mundell explains how useful Linked In Answers can be.

Keep reading for thoughts on emotions at work, keeping promises, customer service, email horror stories, cool Photoshop tools, messy bathrooms and blogging for a job...

Thursday Links

Links this week cover work/life balance, problem solving, writing for readers, sales and marketing, business growth, reconnecting with an old friend, and succeeding at a new role in a new organization.  Enjoy!

This is work/life balance week for me, so I'll lead off with this perspective on perspective by "America's Favorite Workplace Columnist" Anita Bruzzese.

Thursday Links: some fun, goals, networking and more

We begin with a bit of light comedy.  If you're like me, you hate those forwarded emails that promise you great riches if you just send them along to ten friends.  Chris Cree has the antidote - a mantra you will want to use daily.  Do be sure to listen to the short audio file on the blog.  It's awesome!

My friend, Mike Schaffner is a serious, sober, senior IT leader.  Just look the photo on his blog - this guy is no nonsense.  So I'm sure this YouTube video he found is completely serious, too.

Thursday Links: Katie Konrath (again) and other interesting voices

I start the link fest this week with another reference to Katie Konrath.  Katie just started blogging in May, and already she's managed to hit me right between the eyes at least five times.  She has a way of taking what I thought I knew and making it into something really insightful.  The latest example is her July 18 post, in which she takes a small comment of mine and spins it into a post about how great ideas often come from looking outside your home territory.  If you have any need to be creative in your life, you should be reading Katie Konrath.

Some laughs, learning from failure, innovation, distractions and "givens"

We start this weeks collection of links with a couple of funnies.  Roberta Hill, who writes about personality assessments, found this primer on how NOT to do PowerPoint presentations.  And Jessica Hagy's Index Card on Tuesday made me smile.  I've got all three, and they are - at least to Cynthia.

Thursday links: branding, focus, simplification, time away, mid-year questions

This week I was intrigued by posts about branding, simplification, taking time away from work, focus, the iPhone, and by two great lists of questions to ask yourself.

Thursday links: priorities, marketing, action planning, vision road maps, networking, on-line versus print, recycling

I've been collecting links for two weeks, because of vacation.  Lots to share.  Here are the best.

Memory, coaching, fear induced lethargy, confused and fired customers, and one really cool website

Nine great links from the last week:

First, a couple of posts about memory.  Tim Sanders asks if Google and other on-line tools are allowing our memories to atrophy.  On the other hand, Bob Sutton reports on research suggesting that by forgetting some of this stuff we can easily find on-line, we might be improving our capacity to remember important stuff that is not available on Google.

Technology, interviewing, career management, bookshelf conversations, and communications

I start this week with a tremendously cool photo, posted on "daily dose of imagery."  I've linked to a smaller version posted on Flikr that will be easier to view on screen.

Yesterday I wrote about the appropriate use of technology.  At about the same time, Dan Sweet was publishing this eloquent rant about how technology may be frittering (twittering?) our careers away.

Of CEOs, Gen Y, Christine Kane, late bosses, Brand America and servant leadership

Links that intrigued me this week...

Marc Jampole writes in the Pittsburgh Business Times about what a company must do "When a CEO goes down."

Two tidbits about Gen Y.  Elizabeth Sanders writes in the Business Journal of Milwaukee about how Deloitte & Touche is appealing to the Gen Y need to make a difference to the world. And the Life of Learning blog (I can't find an author's name on the site yet - if you know who writes it, please let me know) presents data on Gen Y and some thoughts on how companies can attract and retain them.