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1 simple rule to make you smarter than this man

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on July 25, 2015December 11, 2021
  • Life

This is Quentin Cooper.  He is a science blogger for the BBC, queue awesome British accent here, it makes everyone seem smarter and cooler.  Quentin has a fascinating job and is well respected by his […]

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Do You Know Your VORP

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on August 31, 2014November 3, 2016
  • Success

Not a class 8 Vorpal sword you geek, Value Over Replacement Player, OK equally geeky.  You baseball fans out there will recognize this stat.  A guy I work with, Eray, taught me its importance in business.  […]

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Your Cruzados arn’t worth squat here, use these 8, no 9, motivators instead.

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on August 20, 2014July 29, 2015
  • Management

Cruzados, I love the way that sounds, sad it died a premature death.  It was the currency of Brazil from 1986 – 1989.  OK so perhaps its death was not premature.  Actually at the time […]

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Shields Down

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on August 12, 2013September 1, 2014
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Close your laptop lid Don’t take out your phone Either you need to be in this meeting or you don’t.  If you need to attend then be present, if you don’t then DO NOT GO.  Seriously, have […]

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How to tell if someone kicks ass

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on June 6, 2013November 5, 2016
  • Management

My first job out of college was Trust Associate for Bank of America.  Why you ask?  3 reasons: I graduated with a degree in economics My grades were terrible It was 1990, no one was […]

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Want a Great Job? Then Be the Ball Danny.

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on May 30, 2013November 5, 2016
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Sorry I have been away for a while, I have been overseas.  Spending a week time phased 8 hours causes you to loose your mind.  Not as in going insane, as in lost with your luggage […]

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You don’t get it

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on May 12, 2013November 5, 2016
  • Success

I was in a meeting on Friday and one of the people in the meeting looked at me and said pointblank, “you just don’t get it”. They were right. When you hear “you don’t get […]

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Single, Double, Triple Credit

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on April 30, 2013November 5, 2016
  • Uncategorized

We all know the most difficult achievement in baseball or work is the homerun right?  In the early days of baseball, homeruns were the rarest of hits.  In the early 1900s homeruns constituted only 2.7% […]

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Why you are unemployable

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on April 21, 2013December 6, 2018
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You know that nightmare we have all had, the one where you have been laid off, or fired, or you quit in a fit of passion?  I am not talking about the dreams where you […]

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