Cube Rules Links, Saturday, February 28, 2015

Links, Saturday, February 28, 2015This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesGrab some coffee and take a look at what I’ve been saving up for you this week:You know how you get overwhelmed by a thousand emails in your email box? Then you simply decide to delete all of them, read or not, to get back to zero? That’s email bankruptcy.But Evernote is getting to be similar for a lot of people. Hundreds, if not thousands, of notes in all sorts of categories. And no idea why they are there. So Bob Stanke, who had way to many notes and notebooks, just deleted them all, declaring Evernote bankruptcy.As an interesting aside, as I do my reading during the week, I send the a rticles you see here for easy access when I write this post over to…Evernote.I write a lot of “how to” articles on . But this article got me thinking I should do a few more “vision” ones. The case is made by “How to Illuminate a Vision Your Organization Will Believe In” over at Talent Culture. Of course, this was a perfect post â€" a “how to” article that presents a “vision.”I need to do that sometime…The assertion that open offices help improve communications might (might) be true. What is true is that too much of an open office can drive you nuts. In “How to Make the Best of Shrinking Office Space,” Suzanne Lucas notes how companies should do a little accommodation â€" to privacy.Yes, she bashes some HR departments â€" but for good reason, based on performance. But there are some good reasons to have an HR department â€" including taking care of people like Jim. Everyone knows their own Jim. And this is what we’d like to say to him.I think it will be a while before the phone interview is gone. But “Is the Phone Screen Going The Way of The Dinosaur?” makes the case.Honestly, I’m out there searching the currents trying to find the way that best works for me and gets  me to use  a time management system. Changing approaches, changing contexts, changing programs (Outlook, OmniFocus, Things, Evernote…), and changing contexts again. This way of using OmniFocus looks interesting…and possibly dangerous. “Meetings, awesomeness, and potential bodily harm” shows  the magic from Relative Sanity.I get it. But, seriously, you really need to prep your job references, people.  Neutral references are now considered a negative reference? And digging out a negative about the candidate is now considered gold…It’s another snowy day here in Wisconsin and winter’s getting pretty old. But Bockfest  beckons at the Capital Brewery and Kate and I will be bundled up and having a brew. Or two. Enjoy your weekend,  Cubicle Warriors!This i s not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.