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Do You Know Your VORP

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on August 31, 2014November 3, 2016
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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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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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Bull shit, you don’t want to be promoted

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on May 4, 2013November 5, 2016
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We have all heard the definition of insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.  That’s how I know you don’t want to be promoted.  Because, after receiving clear advice on the steps that will get you promoted, […]

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Single, Double, Triple Credit

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on April 30, 2013November 5, 2016
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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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Your Cruzados arn’t worth squat here, use these 8, no 9, motivators instead.

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