Working & Thinking
I have been reading Wired magazine since 1996. Once I started reading it I couldn’t stop. Now I collect them and try to get my collection complete. Old magazines are generally nothing more than nostalgic but old Wired articles are still interesting, even years later. Often when I’m sitting somewhere, staring at the sky or seemingly doing nothing I think about a quote from Risto Linturi, the professional futurist for Noka, which I read years ago. A few minutes ago I picked a random old copy from my collection and found the quote...
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So I just found our that Flickr lets me blog straight from their site. Very convenient. I wanted to use this photo as an illustration for my “How to deal with scheduling conflicts” blog but I don’t know how to do that just yet… Aha, that seems to be a simple ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ action...
read moreHow to deal with scheduling conflicts – tip 3: Why forgetting is good!
I often forget things. I actually forget most things! Often, I don’t even remember what I did yesterday. And I’m not sorry! The reason I don’t remember a lot of things is because I’m not interested in some things. And for every thing I forget I remember a lot of other very important things. Lets say I would ask you, without looking at your calendar, what meetings you have next week. You might remember 3 meetings out of 6, right? And I assume that the meeting ‘Talk about promotion’, ‘Accept Nobel...
read moreHow to deal with scheduling conflicts – tip 2: You are not late if they know you are late
You are not late if they know you are late. Think about that the next time you are going to be late at a meeting. Most of the times you are late you actually know you are going to be late way in advance. But you deny it, try to avoid it and then do it anyway. But you will find out that if you call, even if it is only 10 minutes in advance, that you might not make it people will hugely appreciate that. So, the next time you have a meeting and you think you might not make it in time pick up the phone and say this ‘Hi, we have a meeting in...
read moreHow to deal with scheduling conflicts – tip 1: Never Apologize!
That is a weird tip isn’t it? I know and it isn’t a universal tip. If you bump into someone on the train please DO apologize. If you you forget your girlfriends birthday I suggest you apologize profusely. But in a business-situation you better not apologize. A few years ago I had a meeting with a manager from a large company and I was a few minutes late. So as I sat down I started to explain why I was late and how sorry I was. He interrupted me and told me… ‘Never Apologize!’ I responded… ‘Excuse...
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