PUTTING THE BUSINESS IN BUSINESS
with The Answer Guy
THE ‘BUSINESS’ PART OF BUSINESS
What Conversations Are Allowed
Some years ago, I spent a bunch of time in France. As an American, I found cracking the social code there challenging. Then a friend told me the secret of what's different in France than in the USA. French people reserve familiarity for their friends and families....
The Problem with Salary History Questions
One of the biggest problems in business change and business process has always been the way we do recruiting. And the era of Internet job postings has actually made this worse, but that's a discussion for another day. https://youtu.be/mWQt55uTEFE The good news is that...
Women Can’t Negotiate (Really; Women STILL Can’t Negotiate)
Women can't negotiate. Go ahead; yell and scream and call me a sexist. Problem is, at least one quite-successful woman business investor and executive agrees. She phrases it not that women can't negotiate, but that women don't negotiate—and cites examples. But in the...
10 Steps to Saying No Graciously
And now, we present 10 Steps to saying no graciously! Except, of course, that there's only one step. Before you say no, put yourself in your customer's shoes. Simple, right? It's easy to say something so obvious, but there's a lot of room for people with different...
Business Change Highlights
Alternative Press vs Alternative Facts
Long before Kellyanne Conway called Sean Spicer's comments "alternative facts", the idea of the alternative press was on my mind. Now, speaking as a pure pragmatist, the last few days' events have got me thinking. Where does the idea of alternative press vs...
What Bosses Do In ‘Business Change’
Tomorrow's the big day. This man becomes President of The United States, and we all ask in unison what he will do next. Which has me thinking about what bosses do ... you know ... ever. https://youtu.be/pPQ0STuO-iU The picture atop this page is pulled from a strip...
State of the Seth Godin Tribe, 2017
This bespectacled, defolliculated man is a marketing genius. That's not news to us here; over the years Seth Godin has appeared many times at Answer Guy Central. Today, though, he's back with a vengeance; in 2017 The Seth Godin Tribe means more than ever. As much as I...
The Donald and The Actress (and The Mouth)
This morning it all came together for me, courtesy of The Donald The Actress and The Mouth. I don't much care for awards programs. By definition they're self-congratulatory, don't much impact my life and aren't terribly interesting. But I happened to catch a big piece...
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