Monthly Archives: January 2010

Accounting For My Time

If they made a movie about my professional life, it would be called Kevin Cummings and the ‘To-Do’ List of Doom. Each workday I start with a nice clean sheet of note paper which I sully with an ugly list … Continue reading

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What’s Bugging You?

In late 2009 Consumer Reports evidently ran out of new products to test. What other explanation could account for their decision to conduct a phone survey to find out what annoys people the most? The answer to that question is … Continue reading

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It’s A Date!

When my wife and I went out to breakfast, the waitress asked if we were on our honeymoon. This was a reasonable question as we were eating breakfast in Niagara Falls, Canada which which attracts honeymooners the way a bus … Continue reading

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Confidence Man

Really. It was my fault. If I didn’t want to answer highly technical questions from random strangers, I shouldn’t have worn my red fleece vest to the home improvement center. The disaster that happened the day I wore a white … Continue reading

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Job Description

If you have a job, you probably have a job description. This allows your manager to keep you centered on the tasks which are vital to maintaining a mission-centric focus for your forward-looking organization. It is also useful when your … Continue reading

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