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Can A Job Search Be Done in 2 Hours? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

I recently had the opportunity to meet a talented career consultant, Steve Dalton, at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.  Steve has written a new book called The 2-Hour Job Search.  I know what you’re thinking: is he trying to become Tim Ferriss 2.0?  Well, there are certainly worse goals. But I digress.  I mention [...] Related posts:

1. Improved Website Search Experience
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360° Answers: Am I Being a Tattle? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Each of our workplace experts has weighed in on the following question from a reader to give you four points of view. Here’s the question, with our experts’ responses below: I started my first real job about a year ago and have a good rapport with my coworkers (as is necessary when working in a collaborative [...] Related posts:

1. 360° Answers: Caught Between Multiple “Bosses”
2. How to Deal with an Unresponsive Colleague
3. 360° Answers: The Quandary of Hiring Overqualified Candidates

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Four Simple Steps for Building a Case for Change - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

When someone on the “front lines” of a business notices a problem that requires fixing, too often it’s ignored because it will be a hassle to convince others to change the status quo. Niccolo Machiavelli said in 1515, “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to [...] Related posts:

1. A Few Simple Words Can Kill Creativity In Your Team
2. Minimize Change by Being a Proactive Team Leader
3. 5 Steps to Writing Concise Emails

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How to Reverse Negativity and Come out on Top - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Sometimes there is nothing more irritating than those trite phrases like “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” When you’re having a tough time in life, your first inclination may be to tell those full of such homespun logic to go suck a lemon. Those people don’t have to deal with an ogre boss or [...] Related posts:

1. How to Become More Resilient
2. How to Improve Your Attitude Today
3. 5 Steps to Writing Concise Emails

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Managers – Set Limits on Long Hours - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Do you and your team work more than 40 hours per week? When it comes to productivity, longer hours are not better. As Sara Robinson writes in “Bring Back the 40-Hour Workweek, ” decades of research during the 20th Century showed us that 8 hours a day/40 hours a week was the maximum workload for [...] Related posts:

1. Working Extended Hours? You’re Not Alone
2. Can A Job Search Be Done in 2 Hours?
3. 10 Ways Managers Botch Performance Evaluations

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Joel Garfinkle on Dealing with the Pressures of Management - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Joel Garfinkle is an executive coach and author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. Recently, I  asked him some questions about some common problems faced by managers, and how best to deal with them. AB: Let’s say I’m a manager and my staff just isn’t meeting its goals. [...] Related posts:

1. Remove the Barriers to Real Work
2. Team and Management Communication is a Two-Way Street
3. Influencing Someone Who’s Blocking Your Progress

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Hire with Less Risk - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

In-person conversational interviews are notoriously ineffective for determining whether a new hire will be a good fit.  In many instances, a second interview is needed to more completely assess whether a particular candidate is well suited to an open position.  Work simulations, sometimes also known as case interviews, provide candidates with a real-life business problem [...] Related posts:

1. 15 Do’s and Don’ts for Better Interviewing
2. 5 Interview Practices to Hire Superstars
3. How to Prepare as the Interviewer

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Being Spider Man: How Introverts Can Excel at Extroverted Roles - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Sherrie Haynie, a consultant with CPP, Inc., the publisher of the Myers-Briggs assessment, had this to say regarding introverts: “Often, introverts describe how they interact with the outside world as a performance, and acting is work.  Similar to professional actors, introverts may appear enthusiastic, lively and entertaining.  However, many describe the experience as being ‘on [...] Related posts:

1. How to Be More Effective: Tips for Introverts
2. Networking for Introverts
3. Are You a Big Picture Thinker or Detail-Oriented?

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New QuickBase Mobile: Get the Job Done Anywhere - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

We’re excited to announce that, as part of Sunday’s release, we are introducing major improvements to the QuickBase mobile experience! This is a substantial addition to the view-only version we released back in January and includes that ability to add and edit records in your applications from your mobile device. QuickBase mobile increases your team’s [...] Related posts:

1. Of Mobile Applets and Androids: Creating a Native Android Application for QuickBase
2. A Developer Gazes Into the Future of QuickBase Mobile Apps
3. The New SaaS Standard: Service on Any Device

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Out with the Old and in with the New (Features) - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

There’s a product management rule of thumb to periodically review all your product features (features your users request as well as the features you’ve already implemented) and do a little house cleaning. If at least 10% of your users ask for a capability, it should be somewhere on your roadmap to solve that need. However, [...] Related posts:

1. My QuickBase Page gets another update… thanks to your feedback!
2. February Release – User Customization and Conditional Dropdowns
3. New QuickBase Features Released

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Lessons from the Boston Marathon: Deciding When to Adjust a Goal - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

This past Monday, the running of the 116th Boston Marathon was held. Unlike the race most years, this year it was unseasonably hot. a sunny day with over 70 degrees at the start line and temperatures climbed to mid-80s during the race. While this may seem like fine weather for a day at the beach, [...] Related posts:

1. Leadership Lessons from NYC Marathon and Edison Pena
2. Beware of Goal Tunnel Vision
3. A Goal Setting Activity for Right Now

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What Will Young Workers in 2030 Be Like? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Did you know that there’s another baby boom on?  Since the mid 2000s, the fertility rate in the U.S. has been at its highest since 1971, meaning that the generation preliminarily known as Generation Z is actually larger than its predecessor, the mammoth Generation Y.  The new boom is thought to be caused by a [...] Related posts:

1. How to Succeed as a Young Manager
2. Older Workers: Your Career is Not Dead
3. How to Lead in 2025

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3 Ways Men Undermine Themselves at Work - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Are you one of those men who favors the use of sports analogies to explain everything from giving birth to taking over a third world country? Do you find nothing wrong with the fact that you chew your nails, tell dirty jokes and leave the toilet seat up? If so, you may fit right in [...] Related posts:

1. 6 Ways Women Undermine Themselves at Work
2. 5 Ways to Become More Disciplined at Work
3. Think You Have Work/Life Balance? Compare to Others to Find Out

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Settling into a Work-Life Rhythm - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

This past Tuesday Rick Santorum announced he was suspending his presidential campaign and no longer running for the White House. According to a Huffington Post article, “the combination of his daughter’s sickness and recent poll numbers showing him possibly losing his home state apparently prompted the early departure.” I can’t imagine how difficult it must [...] Related posts:

1. Think You Have Work/Life Balance? Compare to Others to Find Out
2. Meg Cadoux Hirshberg on Balancing Work and Marriage
3. Harvey Mackay on Job Seeking, Personal Branding and Life Lessons from Lou Holtz (Pt 2)

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How to Protect Your Time From Long-winded Colleagues, Callers, and Other Interruptions - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

When you’re racing to get something done on a deadline and you get interrupted by a long-winded colleague or telephone caller, do you:
(a) Let them talk, trying to politely hint that you don’t have much time, or 
(b) Say, “I’m actually short on time right now. Could I call you back?” Far more people do [...] Related posts:

1. Instant Productivity Booster: Minimize Interruptions
2. Do You Talk About Yourself Too Much at Work?
3. 3 Ways to Overcome Your Networking Fears

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The 5 Most Awkward Conversations at Work - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

1. You asked your co-worker if she was pregnant, and she’s not. 2. You asked your boss of eight years if he enjoyed his Christmas, and he had to remind you that he’s Jewish. 3. Your co-worker is a touchy-feely type, and you just admitted it makes you uncomfortable. 4. A colleague just remarked on [...] Related posts:

1. Should You Come Out at Work?
2. Do You Talk About Yourself Too Much at Work?
3. Why You Unconsciously Lie at Work

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5 Interview Practices to Hire Superstars - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Most managers say that they know how important it is to have the right people on their staff, but many of them don’t act accordingly when it comes to how they interview and hire people. And let’s be clear: The impact of hiring the right people is huge. We’re not talking about small gains in productivity [...] Related posts:

1. How to Do a Great Phone Interview
2. How to Choose Between Equally Great Candidates
3. 360° Answers: The Quandary of Hiring Overqualified Candidates

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Are You Being a Nag? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

I was having lunch with one of my mentors the other day, an extremely successful businesswoman in the HR field.  She asked me who had signed up for my new 2012 partnership offering. “No one,” I said. “Why not?  It’s such a great idea, and for any decent-sized company, the cost is a drop in [...] Related posts:

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2. 3 Keys to Sales Excellence
3. Managing the Needs of Multiple Supervisors

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6 Ways Women Undermine Themselves at Work - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Are you one of those women who carries a handbag big enough to hold all your essentials? Like lip balm, a change of shoes, a first responder medical kit, a small sewing machine and a hair straightening iron? If so, you’re obviously prepared for any event that may arise while you’re at work, rather it’s [...] Related posts:

1. Are women giving up on career success?
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3. Why You Might Make Less Than Coworkers

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If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try Again…and Again - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered to be the most admired president in the history of the United States.  Listening to the Gettysburg address or talking to your high school teachers, you’d think he could do no wrong.  Except he could, and he did.  Let’s take a look at Honest Abe’s lifetime record: Failed in business [...] Related posts:

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2. Obama’s Jobs Speech: Persuading the Reluctant
3. Thinking About Applying for a Job Internally?

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