ATLANTA, GA - A disgruntled job seeker sent this [unedited] email to my client's HR department: To: jobs@MyClient.comFrom: Joe BlowSubject: Re: Thanks for applying to MyClient.comDate: Monday, March 1, 2009, 12:20 PM Dear [My Client], Please REMOVE me from your database.  Please remove my ...

OMAHA, NE - Well, it's here: Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.  While you can read for yourselves Mr. Buffett's sober predictions of the economy being "in shambles throughout 2009 - and, for that matter, probably well beyond," job seeke...

ATLANTA, GA - Regular readers of this blog might have noticed that my posts were light in January.  That's because recently I started Twittering.  Twitter is a very interesting microblogging tool that limits the length of each post to 140 letters.  Twittering is like being a fo...

ATLANTA, GA - Regular readers of this blog might have noticed that my posts were light in January.  That's because recently I started Twittering.  Twitter is a very interesting microblogging tool that limits the length of each post to 140 letters.  Twittering is like being a fortune cookie writer...

Happy Monday! For several years, I have been a GoDaddy key account customer due to the fact that I have several hundred domains in my account.  GoDaddy is an incredibly well-run company, thanks to its founder and CEO, Bob Parsons.  Growing a successful company is really hard work, and Bo...

ANYTOWN - This is just incredible.  Below are four musicians covering a Beatles song.  They're tight as a drum, and they're not in the same room.  It's quite possible that they are not even in the same timezone.  Perhaps they have never met in person.  Why b...

DALLAS, TX - Direct marketing consultant Ted Grigg had an excellent comment on my recent marketing post, Interviewing Tips: "What ELSE are you applying for?".  You can read Ted's comments here, but the gist of Ted's concern is that ... "Today's work world is is job d...

LOS ANGELES, CA - This is an unbelievable deconstruction of a hit song ("Peg" by Steely Dan) played by the world's greatest session musicians in the 1970's.  These players knew they were great, too.  Big budget record.  High expectations.  Lots of egos in the room. Yet ...

PHILADELPHIA - Yesterday, I was flying to Philadelphia and reading the latest issue of "Success" magazine on the plane (Dec '08). Several different, unrelated articles caught my eye, primarily because of a common thread running through each one.  The magazine issue itself did not have...

ATLANTA, GA - Happy Election Day!  Vote early and often!  Here are some choice tidbits from the worlds of marketing and recruitment: Big news for Apple in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal: The company is losing one of its stars, Tony Fadell.  Mr. Fadell does not say where he's going, b...