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Have you ever invited people to a ski resort and had everyone show up with ping pong paddles? And you were like, “Guys, what the heck? I said we were skiing!”? And your friends were all like, “We thought ping pong was the same as skiing”? And then there was nothing they could do but try to tape the paddles to their feet and ski down the mountain that way? Except you did...
Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of bees in your house and you want to sell them. If you just market them as bees, nobody’s going to buy them because nobody likes bees themselves. In fact, the only thing people like about bees is that they make honey. So, that’s why, it'd be a good idea to put your bees in a jar and call them “Pre-Fresh Honey.” (And then maybe add somet...
I used to think “getting your name out there” meant that you should put more messages in bottles into the stream behind your house. Well, it turns out it, it means something totally different. Also learned: dumping hundreds of plastic bottles into a stream is considered polluting, and it’s really easy for someone to fine you for it if said bottles contain pieces of paper ...
For one of the first jobs I ever had, my boss paid me in time. I earned one hour of work for every hour I worked. Yes, it’s pretty embarrassing to admit that I fell for that. Maybe a little bit more embarrassing to admit since I was self-employed at the time. So why even bring it up? Because today we’re talking about people who do work for free, or “interns,” as they’...
What do you do when your cell phone stops working? You bring it to the store, pretend you didn’t drop into the toilet at the airport, and exchange it for a new one. Luckily, a business isn’t usually small enough to fall into a toilet. However, it can stop working, and unfortunately, when it does, there’s no store where you can exchange it for a new one. But first th...
You ever get a paper cut at work and think, “Ugh! This is terrible!”? Well hey, it could be worse. You could get a paper cut from a piece of paper that’s on fire while falling down the stairs onto a poorly-placed office cactus. Sure, this probably sounds pretty funny (or tragic, if you’re really sensitive about cacti), but the truth is these are the kinds of things you ...
You know what kills your employees’ productivity? When they leave for lunch. Especially if it’s a lunch of cough syrup. But don’t worry; there are ways you can keep your employees from leaving. The easiest is locking the doors from the outside; unfortunately, it’s also illegal (or so I’m told). So instead, we here at the Sean Adams University of Business Management De...
If you’ve got a really good friend or relative named Richard who drives a car that he calls “the business” and has a tendency to run into things with it – houses, trees, pedestrians, etc. – then you’re probably pretty used to the phrase, “Your Business struck it, Rich!” Well, we here at the Sean Adams University of Business Management Development Leadership are ...
I know you come here every week for an insightful business advice, but this week there’s something else on my mind. So I’m cancelling today’s lesson (“Thawt’s the way we do it – building a break room microwave policy that everyone will be happy about”) and instead using this space to present an open letter to the NCAA. Take a look. Dear NCAA, I am writing t...
When someone says, “I’ve got some skeletons in the closet,” most of the time it means that he has a dark past, but not always. It might also mean he works at a place that uses a lot of skeletons in their day-to-day operations, and therefore needs to keep the supply closet stocked with them. What kind of place would need a lot of skeletons? I don’t know. Maybe a company ...