Yeah, you heard me. College is overrated. I’ve been to seven years of college. I have a Masters of Information Systems Management. Does having the degree help me? No, I run my own company, so nobody gave me a raise just because I had a graduate degree. Does what I learned while obtaining my degree [...]
Results Oriented Work Environment
A results-oriented work environment is one in which results matter more than seniority, more than arbitrary measures of performance (like 40-hour work weeks), more than status, and more than ego. The ultimate question is “Here is a job, can you do it and do it right?”
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College is Overrated
I’ve been working from home for over a year now and it is absolutely wonderful. Amongst the myriad benefits are: 1. My four-month old daughter. This might become a challenge when she’s three and banging on my door. 2. Lunch with my wife. Not to mention being able to see her several times a day, [...]
Let’s say I own a house-painting company (I don’t, but let’s pretend) and you work for me. I charge my customers $100 per room to paint their house, and because I want your incentives as an employee to be aligned with the company’s incentives I pay you a per-room fee, just like the company gets [...]
Over the past few months since I read The 4-Hour Workweek I’ve been experimenting with bits and pieces of it. At Thanksgiving I took my laptop and left “headquarters” for two weeks. I got my work done while a four hour-drive away and none of my clients or employees noticed. But seeing as how it [...]
Since reading The 4-Hour Work Week, which to me is a decent manual on creating a personal results-oriented work environment, I’ve been trying to implement more and more of it in my life. During the Thanksgiving holiday I spent two weeks away from my home office with nothing more than my phone and laptop. Most [...]
