Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 2)

Mar 29 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business Concepts

This post is a continuation of my Cliff’s Notes for Who Moved My Cheese, the book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (also the Author of The One Minute Manager). Hope you enjoy my annotations of the rest of the principles!

Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 1)

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business Concepts

Finally, after quite some time, I give you the Cliff's Notes for "Who Moved My Cheese"! MY cheese was moved quite so often lately, so I apologize for delivering this only now.. Last post, I had talked about Who Moved My Cheese in a general way. Today, I will give you a Cliff’s Notes version of Who Moved My Cheese. No, I won’t give you spoilers on the parable itself. But I will give you the main principles of the book. If you want to enjoy the childlike beauty of the Who Moved My Cheese parable, you better grab the book for yourself. So, ready for a few life-changing lessons now?

The Search For Significance: Is Your Life Built Around Your Career?

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business Concepts

When you think of the word “significance,” what comes into your mind? Do you equate significance with self-worth? Pleasing your figures of authority? Money? Wealth? A thriving career?

The Search for Significance: Is Your Worth In Your “Stuff?”

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business Concepts

There is one thing that saddens me about our generation, and this is the seemingly extreme materialism that we have. A generation back, our parents had toiled in order for us to experience the comforts that they themselves have missed out on. But today, the average yuppie works... To buy the next iPod, the next digicam, the latest and greatest laptop. While there is totally nothing wrong with being able to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor, and for all I know, like in my country, these young adults deserve their creature comforts too, because these young ones are the type who actually support their families or siblings, and put them through college. But there is something wrong when people focus all their energies on these “creature comforts.” Then there is something grossly wrong when people even turn to credit cards in order to fuel these wants.

Lonely Execs

Mar 26 2008

Posted by Jim as Business Features, Business and Money

"Some executives would love to be left alone." I read this line from an article about how top corporations are protecting their top level executives. Forbes online's section on Tech->Security lists down how these companies spend to keep their hotshots secure. Check these figures out: US$1.8 million - the amount Oracle spends to protect its Chief Executive Larry Ellison last year. US$532,755 - the amount Google spent last year on protecting its Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. US$33,196 - the amount Google spent last year for Company Founder Larry Page's transportation, logistics and personal security. US$1 million - the amount Ford spent ...

Working from Home: Your Home Office Setup

Mar 07 2008

Posted by J. Angelo as Business Features, Business and Money, Virtual Office

If you're like me, you would be quite averse to the usual corporate setup. I used to work the corporate grind, getting up early in the morning to drive or take a cab, bus or train to the office miles away, work for eight or more hours, and then go home at night feeling tired and weary. Work is great and the people are okay, too, except for my disdain with office politics. But it's the travel time that usually leaves me exhausted each day. Imaging wasting your time in hours of travel just to get from point A to point ...

Online Moneymaking 101 Part 2

Feb 11 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business and Money

Last week, I discussed the bigger-scale online moneymaking options. Today, we’ll discuss the mid-level or can-do ways to make money online.

Online Moneymaking 101 Part 1

Feb 06 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Features, Business and Money

Making money online would be easy for a person, if he or she were resourceful enough to seek out the ways you can go about it. I had actually talked about it before, in this ol' article. But today, I will give an “academic”-style take on the topic of online moneymaking. In the online economy, there are economic tiers, as there are in the “real world.” Bear with my categorical mind, as I talk about the ways and means this is done.

2008: Year of Getting Real

Jan 07 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Business Features

The Chinese people -- and all those who believe in the Chinese horoscope -- will celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Rat on Chinese New Year’s Day this Feb. 7. They say it’s going to be a year of conflicts and challenges for the entire world. But for those in the West – and for all other people hooked up with the West – not much thought is being given to 2008 being the Year of the Rat since it’s really the Year of Getting Real. According to Marco della Cava of USA TODAY, a select group of marketers, ...

A million-dollar girl in cyberspace

Nov 04 2007

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Business Features, Business News

The Internet is indeed a gold mine and we, Netizens, just have to know how to grab those gemstones to become millionaires, even billionaires! Indeed, sky’s the limit in cyberspace.

Ashley Qualls barefoot at her desk at the office-basement of her new 4-bedroom home. Take the case of Ashley Qualls, a 17-year-old Internet user who’s now the big boss of a million-dollar business in the US. Using her wits and imagination – and of course her computer – Ashley began making background designs in 2004 for the online social networking website MySpace and turned her hobby into a multi-million dollar enterprise! Ashley is ...

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Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 2)

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