http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/im-the-queen-of-the-non-career-enhancing-conversation.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/im-the-queen-of-the-non-career-enhancing-conversation.html/comment-page-1#comment-488 Asher Sterkin Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:23:34 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8022#comment-488 We all love you as you are, so please, do not change too much.It might be sometimes a mistake to jump with a snap conclusion. The "Blink" book provides a lot of insight about this. However speaking more technically the question is what would be the most effective way for a consultant to advertise herself minimising the risk of e-mail and telephone spam? How could you effectively filter out all these "please pay me" and to get stright to "I want to pay you"? We all love you as you are, so please, do not change too much.It might be sometimes a mistake to jump with a snap conclusion. The “Blink” book provides a lot of insight about this. However speaking more technically the question is what would be the most effective way for a consultant to advertise herself minimising the risk of e-mail and telephone spam? How could you effectively filter out all these “please pay me” and to get stright to “I want to pay you”?

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/im-the-queen-of-the-non-career-enhancing-conversation.html/comment-page-1#comment-489 JonR Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:56:55 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8022#comment-489 Not your fault. It was their choice to work for a consumer finance company. Your instinctively negative response to them has a direct causal link back to their employer's parasitic business practices. Not your fault. It was their choice to work for a consumer finance company. Your instinctively negative response to them has a direct causal link back to their employer’s parasitic business practices.

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/im-the-queen-of-the-non-career-enhancing-conversation.html/comment-page-1#comment-487 Ken Flowers Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:32:07 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8022#comment-487 I think you are being too hard on yourself, too. Your instincts save you time 99% of the time. Just because the 1% comes up, doesn't mean you should change to a lower performing model. On the otherhand, the non-angry "what is this regarding?" approach doesn't cost anything more. I think you are being too hard on yourself, too. Your instincts save you time 99% of the time. Just because the 1% comes up, doesn’t mean you should change to a lower performing model.
On the otherhand, the non-angry “what is this regarding?” approach doesn’t cost anything more.

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/im-the-queen-of-the-non-career-enhancing-conversation.html/comment-page-1#comment-490 Steve Rothman Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:54:15 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8022#comment-490 Good post, but maybe you're being a little too hard on yourself. I think it's unprofessional and rude to call people using a speaker phone. If the Nice Person calls a lot of people on the speaker phone, and identifies herself as being from some mega-corp that sometimes annoys consumers, I bet that Nice Person frequently gets the same reaction from others too. But I liked your post! Good post, but maybe you’re being a little too hard on yourself. I think it’s unprofessional and rude to call people using a speaker phone. If the Nice Person calls a lot of people on the speaker phone, and identifies herself as being from some mega-corp that sometimes annoys consumers, I bet that Nice Person frequently gets the same reaction from others too. But I liked your post!

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