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How to Reinvent Your Business

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on September 14, 2014September 29, 2016
  • Success

If you are reading this recently you probably said, “Oh Crap” or some other exceptionally deep admission of feeling up the creak without a paddle.  Perhaps not.  If you have ever known anyone who got […]

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Put Your Career Into Warp Drive

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on September 7, 2014July 26, 2015
  • Life

<soapbox> We are all so petty, thinking we have to fight and scrabble for every little victory, its pathetic.  The reality is the diversity of style and approach that we so rile against when we […]

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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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Bull shit, you don’t want to be promoted

  • by Todd Haugen
  • Posted on May 4, 2013November 5, 2016
  • Success

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
  • 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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