According to Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski, an organizational psychologist and professor of business at New York University, there are three approaches towards work you can take. You can treat your work as a job, career or calling. The workers with the “calling” approach are happier and more satisfied with their life and work. Interestingly, Wrzesniewski’s research […]
Management
12 Ways to Create a Happy Workplace Culture
Doug Conant once said, “To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.” By believing and constantly implementing/sharing this mantra, he was able to turn things around for his company. According to research an average person devotes 90,000 hours of their life to work. It is a significant amount of time that makes us […]
What’s the craziest thing you have said to your boss?
Thomas, Manager I started as the only person in the tech department of a consulting and training company. The company had just spent about $30K (if I recall accurately) on a nice looking, but not at all user friendly new website design. It had been languishing for months due to the company they’d contracted dragging […]
What do I need to do to manage a UX team effectively?
Talking about managing a UX team, it’s actually things about UX leadership. Though not an entirely new one, UX leadership definitely goes viral in plenty industries. Since Steve Jobs pioneered in leading product design as the CEO, UX leader came into being. (We wrote about the Lessons to Learn from Steve Jobs for your Startup.) […]
Best Responses to “Sell me this pen” In Interviews
Anyone who has seen Martin Scorsese’s – “The Wolf of Wall Street”, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as the infamous stock-broker and salesman, Jordan Belfort, contains a classic “Sell me this pen” sales lesson scenario. In the movie, DiCaprio’s Belfort teaches his sales team their first lesson by pulling out a pen and saying, “sell me this […]