Start Using Microsoft Office Web Apps — Today

On September 21, 2009

Start Using Microsoft Office Web Apps — Today

It's no secret that Microsoft has been cooking up a Google Docs-like online version of Office for some time. It's called Office Web Apps and all the heavy hitters from the Office suite are represented here -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote -- all in online form, storing your documents in the cloud.  And while this new Office offering is far from fully baked, you can get a taste of it right now. To try out Office Web Apps, you need a Windows Live account and, more specifically, SkyDrive (which is Live's 25GB online storage service). Go to SkyDrive and make sure that you have at least one Microsoft Office document in the My Documents folder.   Once you do, you'll...
On September 21, 2009

What a Drunk Swiss Guy Can Teach You About Handling Criticism

One of the most interesting lessons I learned about blogging happened in the basement of a Swiss pub on Christmas Eve. Back in 1999, my brother and I went to visit our sister in Switzerland. Somehow, we all ended up in this basement room at a pub in Interlaken with some locals. For some reason, [...]
On September 21, 2009

A Guide to Healthy Airport Eating

With airlines cutting back food service, traveling executives are suddenly spending more time thinking about airports as potential on-the-go restaurants. And that can be a bad thing for the waistline, not to mention various internal organs that sustain life. The good news: Many airports have, if not health food restaurants, at least restaurants that offer healthy items. You just have to know where to look. Patrick J. Skerrett, a frequent traveler and editor of the Harvard Heart Letter,  writes A Flight Plan for Healthier Airport Eating post on Harvard Business Publishing. His tips include: Slow Down. "If you have the time for a sit-down meal, restaurants like Legal Seafood (Boston), Figs (LaGuardia), and Ebisu (San Francisco International) offer numerous healthy...
On September 21, 2009

Universities Need a Degree of Commercial Reality

If government is to spend less on higher education, should business foot the bill? And should commerce thus have a say in what universities do? Business benefits from good graduates but it also pays for this supply of talent by offering high wages. The graduates also thus gain from having degrees. And the country benefits from an educated elite that can expand the economy.  In the past the country mainly paid the cost of education though in recent years students have borne more of the cost, but they pay with cheap loans provided by the state. And the state gets its money from future taxes on the students’ higher earnings (or current taxes on past students’ pay) and on taxes...
On September 21, 2009

QUIZ: Which Objection Can’t Be Overcome?

SCENARIO: You're selling a product that a prospect truly needs.  However, this prospect is a "difficult sell" and keeps surfacing objections.  No problem; you're handling them all like a true sales pro.  Suddenly, the prospect comes up with an objection that stops you in your tracks.  You close your briefcase, thank the prospect, and leave... without making the sale.  And as you leave, you know you did the right thing because if you stayed, you'd just be wasting your time. [poll id="444"] CLICK HERE for my best answer » [poll id="444"] Almost every time a customer says "no" (regardless of how that "no" is expressed), the customer is actually surfacing an objection, which it's possible to overcome.  Most objections are...


On September 21, 2009

Readers’ Procrastinator Pride: Are They Crazy?

Last week when I posted an item on an interesting little psychological study that seems to show procrastinating in college is correlated with later burn-out at work, I wasn't expecting too much passion in the comments. But when the first commentator, RobinvdS, noted that the information in the study wasn't exactly actionable (fair enough) and asked of procrastinating, "how do you get rid of it? How do you get people convinced that they need to get the things done?," a great outpouring of procrastinator pride was unleashed. Apparently, there is a deep well of pride in procrastinators and even a belief that those who put off projects until the last moment, actually, in the end, turn in better work. Gustafr,...


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