corporate culture

Every time I see a nice poster with an inspirational saying, I think of despair.com's demotivational posters.

Now they have a book: "The art of demotivation". I am curious, not curious enough to rush order, but curious enough to want a copy.

Chris, I saw this when it came out and ended up crying like a newborn child.

I am listening to this book right now.

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Big Bing : Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe: Books: Stanley Bing by Stanley Bing

Pictures from Google's campus ... I mean, yeah they have free gourmet meals and cheap haircuts and massages ... but we got SOUL!

Quoted: TIME: Life in the Googleplex: Inside Google Headquarters

This one is funny in an "ouch, that hurts" kinda way:

"Preparing a Powerpoint presentation will give you the sweet, sweet illusion of productivity"

Hahah!

Wait...

You have to listen to this. It's hilarious and hits so close to home.

Quoted: Those mass e-mail thank you messages that are commonplace in big business really grate on Financial Times workplace columnist Lucy Kellaway. She finds them insincere.

What the eff, no sortable headings.

I am nocturnal, but most people I work with are not. So I feel like a total slacker coming in the office at 8.

Quoted: "You have a finite amount of energy and talent to provide, and you need to protect it," says Karlin Sloan, chief executive officer of Karlin Sloan & Co., a global leadership-development firm in Chicago, and author of "Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring and Fulfilled Leadership" (Jossey-Bass, 2006). "The goal is to be able to sustain a career throughout your life."

Here are five tips for getting the most of your workday: