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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Although his existence remains uncertain, his fables are real and have been carried throughout the ages to be told and taught as part of a storytelling tradition that remains till this day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">His fable of a shepherd boy who cried wolf is an example of one of his famous stories.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It is used in kinder-gardens and schools all across the globe as a cautionary tale about telling the truth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ya, I don't think that worked well for a big chunk of humanity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Back to the land of grownups, and specifically the part where we have to work to earn money and be happy (a fable by itself), shouting wolf, or raising false alarms is a common thing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We get requests all the time that are labeled urgent or marked with the 'Bang' exclamation mark !</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You get a pile of work thrown at you and you are told it is needed urgently.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Now, that's ok at times and I'm sure a lot of us deal with those types of requests where we have to spend some extra time after working hours or take it back home, if you're that type of person.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But what happens when you're consistently bombarded with them? simple, you get pissed! and your work enthusiasm drops, not to mention the fact that when you get more urgent requests (whether they truly are or not) they all become the same.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Some of you might say: "Nah, you don't know how to prioritize! I don't get that because I know how to organize myself...just learn from me."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes I do agree that prioritizing is an important skill, but not as important as planning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">If you plan correctly, know exactly what is at hand, and allocate the appropriate resources available, you will avoid the headache of scrambling every one around you and screaming DEFCON 1 !</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And prioritizing is something that we all do inherently, whether you notice it or not, and some are just better at it... but what happens when you work over a long period of time and everything is urgent?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was discussing this with one of my friends who also works in the same field, he and many others get a kick out of having an agency or a consultancy slaving for them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"I get to tell them what I want, when I want, and they have to do it...that's what they are paid for!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Some business owners say the same thing when referring to their employees. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes, you do pay them to work for you but you don't own them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Plus, that shows how bad of a manager you are. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Your people skills are just as important as any other skill, and you will loose good talents that just won't take your crap. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't care? more slaves will replace them?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Sure you can do that if you can afford the time and money you'll loose in the process. Although, your reputation as an unprofessional asswhole will stick to you like gum on a new sneaker.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Stop sadistically managing people with a horsewhip (keep that for the bedroom ;p) and learn to appreciate people and their right to rest and disengage from work. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Or give them the option to do the required 'unplanned' work and pay them or reward them for it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They will appreciate it and their job satisfaction will increase.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's either that, or someday when a real wolf comes along, you won't find any villagers running up the hill to help you.</span>Majedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400495528126812157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444133171872816380.post-5256354840543395202011-04-01T18:11:00.000-07:002011-04-01T18:21:41.123-07:00BLAT<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When you can't sleep...try to make the most out of it</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hope it inspires you in anyway possible :p</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I arrived to the shared office building early in the morning, with a positive "nice day" kind of feeling, a feeling that disappeared the second the elevator doors opened and I was slapped in the face with the unavoidable odor of the guy who came out. it felt like I was attacked by a radioactive invisible being that was strangling me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When my brain function came back to remember that I can breathe again, I noticed that I made the stupid mistake of walking into the elevator and pressing the 2nd floor button where the office is (guess my brain's autopilot was on at that time). as I breathed in, my eyes started to tear, the invisible radioactive creature was left behind in the tight confinement of the elevator walls, a coffin that took too long to open again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The doors opened once more, and the receptionist was startled as he saw me jumping out of the elevator grasping for air, as if i was escaping from a falling elevator in the shaft or a demon that was haunting the place.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes he started laughing when he learned what I was running away from (funny how people are amused by others' painful experiences).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One of the guys at the office likes shaking hands every day, which is ok as long as you don't have "Sweaty Hands Syndrome"...and ya the feeling was multiplied by ten after the elevator incident and felt like the sweat was a tsunami of body fluids (ekh).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The restaurant bathroom was also a smell electrifying experience, even the soap left me with a regretful feeling of ickyness. What's wrong with regular soap? does it have to have a strong odor to clean more?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And as I left the restaurant, I had a visual treat of a couple of girls walking out as well, sadly that didn't last for long as my augmented sense of smell took-in too much of their perfume, or maybe they were the type that bathed in cologne thinking that it makes them more attractive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The day was finally over, and as I drove my car back home with the windows opened to get some of that nice breeze we rarely have in this city, it seemed like every household and restaurant in town was cooking onions!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Today felt like a divine prank that was being done for a heavenly YouTube page and "life" was watching and laughing it's ass off.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I mean Common...do I need to start walking around like those OCD paranoids that carry with them antibacterial Detol soaps and sprays, or some ear and nose plugs maybe?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Who knows, one of these days I might bump into that "Essence Burner" guy, and ask him to take a shower before leaving his house...Either that or politely take out a gun, point it at him, and do us all a favor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You might also want to consider the <b><a href="http://www.breffo.com/gallery.html">Breffo</a></b> Spider Podium or Spider stand<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=widgetsamazon-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003Y419K4&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> (if you have a smaller device) which is a nifty piece of accessory that you can find through their website </span><a href="http://www.breffo.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">http://www.breffo.com/</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">or <b>Amazon.com</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I recommend it since the SpiderPodium is so flexible and durable that you can shape it to your needs and use it in your car, on your desk, bike...etc</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A drill and some elbow grease, and voila!... you can easily check your emails, listen to music, read some blogs or <a href="http://www.engadget.com/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Engadget</span></b></a> news (that's where I get my Tech updates), facebook, chat, watch a movie...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A lot of professionals label working in the Middle East as maneuvering in a <span style="color: red;">Chaotically Organized</span> environment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">These types of people can also be found in other regions of the world, but they do have a higher density here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Although we do have a percentage of the work force that knows what they are doing, and they actually do it with inspiring grace and efficiency, we still have people that like keeping monkeys around, till they become </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">"Apes"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="color: white; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Building </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Rapport</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> is an important skill you have to master, and breaking Rapport is even more important (example: show that you are busy by taking away eye contact, or use your body language by moving from facing your visitor to having him to your side)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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