Talent Alley

We all know people that make decisions in extreme ways: the guy who snaps up a real estate deal in a matter of minutes or the person who takes 10 minutes to decide between fries and coleslaw.  Most of us fall somewhere in between, but there are philosophies of decision making that can sway most [...]

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Remember workplaces with pool tables and beanbag chairs?  Remember Pets.com and 1999?  Remember thinking: wouldn’t it be great to work someplace that had a coffee bar and an foosball table? The following shows Google’s offices in Zurich: Link Scrolled down through all the pictures?  Feel jealous? Here’s the real question: would changing your surroundings change [...]

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Computer technology is funny. The smaller, faster, and cheaper things get, the bigger, slower, and more problematic they become. It used to be that sending a 1MB file took forever and was likely blocked by the recipient.   Today 1MB is child’s play, but that 300MB PowerPoint presentation…that’s still a problem. Some may shrug and [...]

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Today, the definition of the ‘the office’ can mean wildly different things to different people.  For some, it’s about a view. For others, it’s all about the gadgets or even a representation of who they are as a person.  We found a photostream that is devoted solely to people’s “desks”.  There are many that are [...]

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The idea sounds crazy…your inbox should be at zero most of the time. That’s zero. Nothing. For most of us, email inboxes are sort of a repository for our lives. It’s the place where you keep everything because you might need it in the future. Even the little replies that don’t mean much: “Yep. Works [...]

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In this video, Richard St. John of the St. John Group, outlines the 8 Secrets of Success.  St. John has plenty of advice to given considering that his design group boasts clients like Nortel and Blackberry…he’s very successful.  But what’s interesting about his presentation is that he talked to some famously successful people about their [...]

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John Baldoni, author of Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up, talks about the benefits of leading from the middle in a Harvard Business IdeadCast.  This is not just a tactic for getting ahead; it’s good for many organizations.  Many companies benefit from hearing from the front lines about customer satisfaction, technical challenges, [...]

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Organizing your Email is probably something that you’ve been meaning to do or have already done but are behind on. You know what we mean…all those emails piled up with about 17 different folders they could be filed under. Or that long inbox that dates back five years. But here a radical idea: suppose you [...]

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Peggy Klaus trains professionals worldwide at leading companies that include Credit Suisse, Disney, UNICEF, and Kaiser Permanente. Author of BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It, she is regularly featured in a wide range of media including the Today Show, 20/20, BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and [...]

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