KEYS TO BUSINESS SUCCESS
The first thing to say is ... I hate flash. Trying to get into the humorcafe site was orrible because of flash, yuk. That said I loved the section titled "Keys To Business Success" on the blog. It goes into what you should be doing to make it look as though you're working really hard. I think I can include a few more... 1) Lets imagine you're at the drinks machine simply standing staring at the rubber plant next to it. Picture one of your execs starting to walk near you. Immediately adopt a seriously thoughful expression so they think you've just popped out of your chair to think through a seriously knotty problem. 2) When you're in your car switch your mobile to immediate answer so that it seems as though you're on calls all the way through your journey. 3) When you go to lunch take a manual with you and leave it open at an appropriately complex page, preferably with ridiculously complicated diagrams. Then if an exec wanders past look intently and say "aha" and they'll think you've worked so hard you've invented the cure for the common cold. 4) Interestingly I saw this one demonstrated: Prop your head in your hand, make sure your writing hand has a pen it it. Then go to sleep. From a distance and in fact quite close by it looks as though you're working. Particularly if you've a slight tremor as the pen moves like you're writing. Someone showed me a gentleman doing this and we stood right behind him and then looked right into his face and there he was fast asleep! We'd actually been talking quite loud directly behind him too. Talk about dedication.
posted by Jim Symcox @ 9/23/2005 03:09:00 pm
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