The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters

In this Book

• Introduction
• The Thing about the Refrigerator
• Where the Rubber Meets the Air
• The Saddest Three Letters in Business
• The “At the End of the Day” Thing
• What's the Plan?
• Does Low-Hanging Fruit Exist?
• The Chickens Need a Raise
• Showing up Still Matters
• The Working from Home Thing
• Are You Responsive?
• Coffee is the New Lunch and other Coffee Matters
• What is That Smell?
• Making a To-Do List is Not the Same as Getting Something Done
• Can We Cancel All Meetings but Keep the doughnuts?
• How Late is Late?
• The IT Guy is the Most Important Person You Know
• Dogs in the Halls
• That Double-Secret Probation Thing
• All My Mentors are dead
• The Three Best Business Books Ever written
• The Thing about Getting Hired and Fired
• Getting Hired is a Probability Function
• Networking—It's All about Traffic
• Words That Matter in the Hunt
• Gigs are a Beautiful Thing
• Tell Me about Yourself and other Lies
• Coffee Can Kill a Career
• Why Do Interviewers Talk So Much?
• Hello? Anyone Out There?
• Reference Checking and Your Secrets
• The Interns are Coming
• Performance Review Benedictions
• Get Fired at Least Once—It Can Be Good for Your Career
• If You are Going to Get Fired, Get Fired Fast
• When Resigning, Do it Fast
• I Don't Love You Anymore
• How to Fire a CEO
• Lunch is Neither a Good Time to Fire Someone nor to Get Fired
• What Kind of Gone is Your Job?
• The Use of F-Bombs Won't Help You with Your Next Job
• When Terminated, Pay Less Attention to Delivery Mode than to Content
• It is Not Difficult to Get Fired—It is Difficult to Get Hired Again
• Never Resign before Landing Another Job
• My Career Clock is Ticking
• Moving from Boy Wonder to the Gray Hair in the Room
• Is it too Late?
• The Make More Money Thing
• That Personal Brand Thing
• What Do You Do?
• Start All Over!
• That Ten Thousand—Hour Rule
• The Work-Life Balance Thing
• Not My Job
• The Job Title Thing
• Projects, Projects, Projects
• The Networking Thing
• Talking about Pay!
• Working in the Polar Vortex
• Is Work Killing Us?
• What Happens on the Road Does Not Stay on the Road
• Availability is Not a Skill
• Career Paths are Accidents
• When Playing Hooky is Okay
• They Will Never Survive without Me
• Are You Remarkable?
• How to Get a Raise
• Sell, Baby, Sell
• How Busy are You?
• One Size Fits All?
• Wait until Your Father Gets Home
• Saying versus Hearing
• Feedback Follies
• Sex, Listening, and other Considerations
• Sharing Too Much Can Become a Habit
• Pornography is Not Your Friend
• Love in the Elevator
• It's Best Not to Be Seen Naked by Colleagues
• Naming Children is Not a Spectator Sport
• Why Doesn't Anyone Listen to Me?
• Love and Hate Relationships
• A View into Work
• Beware the Buttons
• What is Business Casual?
• On Multitasking and other Sins
• Nothing like the Smell of Pot in the Morning
• Are There Awards for Bad Judgment?
• Keep Those Business Cards
• Blind Squirrels and Acorns
• Keeping up is Hard to Do
• Get Me Some of That Inner Work Life
• Gadgets and Gizmos Galore
• The Facebook Thing
• Does Facebook Work at Work?
• More than an Abbreviation
• Cancel My Subscription, Please
• Three Things E-Mail is Not
• Am I Ringing?
• Does Cell Phone Etiquette Exist?
• Password Pressure
• I Forgot My Computer!
• That Google Doodle is Smart
• The WTF Thing
• About Those Tattoos
• I Want My Cubicle!
• Apple Store Anxiety
• Pluto is the New Benchmark
• Oh, That Sinking Feeling
• A Wealth of Webinars
• Dancing with Office Chairs
• Tech, Tech, Tech, and More Tech
• Another Technology List
• High on Whiteboard Markers and Presentations
• What's Your Walk-up Song?
• Are Sports Metaphors Dead?
• Presentation Poisons
• The Praying at Work Thing
• The R Word and the B Word
• Where is the Elevator?
• Eating in Your Car
• Redundant Conversations Again
• All aboard
• Even Lunch is a Quandary Wrapped in a Dilemma
• The Thing about Skinny Suits
• Cars and Your Work Persona
• Welcome to Abilene
• Do Assholes Always Win?
• The Asshole Hall of Fame
• Being Nice at Work
• The Three Best Bosses You Will Ever Have
• Management Gurus?
• The Corporate Culture Thing
• On Powerful Women
• What's an Office?
• Can You Hear Me Now?
• Watch Out for Fibbing
• What's Important?
• Is That Day Really Necessary?
• I Have a Suggestion
• The Worst Boss Announcement
• On Ditch Digging
• Are We All Bosses?
• Some Authentic, Some, Not So Much
• People, Pay Attention
• Death to Performance Reviews
• Frequent-Flier Miles and other Addictions
• Pings, Pangs, Buzzes, and Vibrations—Productivity Reminders
• Business Travel Tango
• The Big Work Lie—“Out of Office” … REALLY?
• The E-Mail Thing
• Those Best Companies
• Hello, My Name is…
• About Those Weekends
• Red Licorice Can Kill Your Organization
• The Backpack is the New Briefcase
• Unequal Distance
• Travel Disasters I Have Known
• Business Travel Things
• Ambiguous Victories and Nebulous Defeats
• Let's Improve Morale around Here
• Is Sitting the New Smoking?
• When is Starting Early Starting Too Early?
• Stop Reminding Me
• Please Stop Doing Stupid Shit
• Lunchtime Stress
• Is Cycling the New Golf?
• Oh, Those Sick Days
• How about Gender Appearance Equity?
• Guilty as Charged
• That Permanent Record
• Calling All Characters
• The Boss is Back
• Are You Happy?
• Reason to Be Thankful at Work
• Fist Bumping
• The Importance of Being Urgent
• What Matters?
• Last Call
• Holidays at Work
• Holiday Party Dos and Don'ts
• A Holiday Missive
• Holiday Homestretch
• The Giving Dilemma
• Is it Total Stress or Long Lunches over the Holidays?
• To Deliver or Not to Deliver, That is the Question
• The Stress of Holiday Cards
• And Goodwill to All
• Three Ways Halloween Can Kill Your Career
• The Halloween Hangover
• Will You Be Mine?
• Back to School Again
• Those Summer Schedules
• When to Play Hooky
• It's Super Bowl … Monday
• Celebrate St. Patrick
• A Final Word
• Notes