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2008-07-06

How to Enjoy Your Job

"Before you can enjoy your job, you have to figure out what "enjoyment" means to you. Doing that will not only help you enjoy your job, but it will help you more fully enjoy life in general. Here are some ways you can improve your satisfaction – job related and otherwise. This is not a quick fix; it will take some time, but the effort will be incredibly rewarding."

http://www.wikihow.com/Enjoy-Your-Job

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

"... we are clearly not meant to work in groups of several hundred. And yet—for reasons having more to do with technology than human nature—a great many people work for companies with hundreds or thousands of employees."

http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too

"The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people to join, says to its newest employees: “If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you’ve worked, plus we will offer you a $1,000 bonus.” Zappos actually bribes its new employees to quit!"

http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/taylor/2008/05/wy_zappos_pays_new_employees_t.html

101 Tips to Help You Make Money Doing What You Love

"1. Cut Out TV Time – Instead of watching other people doing what they love (actors, athletes, etc.) while you sit on the couch, why not invest the time into becoming an Inspired Money Maker. The average US home has the TV on for over 3,000 hours per year. A 40 hour/week job is only 2,000 hours per year."

http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/2008/05/23/101-tips-to-help-you-make-money-doing-what-you-love/

Particle Chart


http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~heroux/images/Particle_chart.jpg

Hair Hats


http://www.uchu-country.com/works/hairhats.html

The Lifesaver Bottle

"LIFESAVER bottle is the world’s first all in one ultra filtration water bottle. It will remove bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi and all other microbiological waterborne pathogens without using chemicals like iodine or chlorine which leave a distinctive foul taste."

http://www.lifesaversystems.com/

12 ways to use Twitter to increase your productivity

"... here are 12 ways you can use Twitter productively. "

http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/05/21/12-ways-to-use-twitter-to-increase-your-productivity/

Lazy Productivity: 10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

"How can laziness work? Well, if you only want to do three things, just do three things. But here's the key: make those three things count."

http://blog.liferemix.net/lazy-productivity-10-simple-ways-do-only-three-things-today

Brain Rules

"How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge?"

http://www.brainrules.net/

Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager

"(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. ..."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/11/sabotage-manual-from.html

Deming Management Method

"Eliminate numerical quotas and goals"

http://members.aol.com/kaizensepg/deming.htm

"a person, to hold a job, meets a quota at any cost with out regard to damage to the company

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* quality is compromised to meet quota "

W. Edwards Deming

"William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900–December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming


"Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership.
Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Deming.27s_14_points


http://www.bvwglobal.com/consulting/downloads_consulting/BvW_White%2520Paper_Deming.pdf&ei=cktaSO6hLqa80QSG_YyLAg&sig2=mEHHmKkiCH5b3Pxb1Quodw&ct=w