Saturday, June 18, 2005
Stop Buying Expensive Coffee and Save Calculator
Did you see the billable hour chart that was circulating awhile back? It computed how many hours you had to work in order to bill a set number of hours.
Well, it now has a partner. A Seattle law school administrator has set up a coffee debt calculator for students who are paying for the expensive Starbuck lattes with borrowed money thus raising their student debts.
All of us can learn from the experience...
Six years ago I moved (my home office) to a condo that is only one block from Starbucks. I thought I had gone to heaven. Since I am only 4 blocks from the beach, I started taking my mid-day coffee break time to pick up a latte and sit on a bench enjoying the ocean view.
The novelty wore off and the price of Starbucks came to the fore.
Find out what your habit is costing you at Stop Buying Expensive Coffee and Save Calculator
See the Washington Post commentary at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701226.html?referrer=email
Did you see the billable hour chart that was circulating awhile back? It computed how many hours you had to work in order to bill a set number of hours.
Well, it now has a partner. A Seattle law school administrator has set up a coffee debt calculator for students who are paying for the expensive Starbuck lattes with borrowed money thus raising their student debts.
All of us can learn from the experience...
Six years ago I moved (my home office) to a condo that is only one block from Starbucks. I thought I had gone to heaven. Since I am only 4 blocks from the beach, I started taking my mid-day coffee break time to pick up a latte and sit on a bench enjoying the ocean view.
The novelty wore off and the price of Starbucks came to the fore.
Find out what your habit is costing you at Stop Buying Expensive Coffee and Save Calculator
See the Washington Post commentary at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701226.html?referrer=email
Monday, June 13, 2005
READ it here:
What an Executive Coach Can Do for You
an article in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge ezine
Coaching lawyers individually is such frustrating and exhausting work that I have abandoned it and now restrict my services to group training. Still I believe in it and cheer on the others who coach and keep up the good work.
This article adds Harvard's imprimateur to coaching and provides you with the arguments you need to justify the expense (to yourself). Remember, if the firm pays for the coach, she usually reports to the partners...
What an Executive Coach Can Do for You
What an Executive Coach Can Do for You
an article in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge ezine
Coaching lawyers individually is such frustrating and exhausting work that I have abandoned it and now restrict my services to group training. Still I believe in it and cheer on the others who coach and keep up the good work.
This article adds Harvard's imprimateur to coaching and provides you with the arguments you need to justify the expense (to yourself). Remember, if the firm pays for the coach, she usually reports to the partners...
" IBM has more than sixty certified coaches among its ranks. Scores of other major companies have made coaching a core part of executive development. The belief is that, under the right circumstances, one-on-one interaction with an objective third party can provide a focus that other forms of organizational support simply cannot.
And whereas coaching was once viewed by many as a tool to help correct underperformance, today it is becoming much more widely used in supporting top producers. In fact, in a 2004 survey by Right Management Consultants (Philadelphia), 86 percent of companies said they used coaching to sharpen the skills of individuals who have been identified as future organizational leaders..."
What an Executive Coach Can Do for You
