Gene Marks | Page 7

They admitted that they blew it.

Video conference calls provoke every worry we have about how we look on camera without offering any of the advantages of meeting face-to-face.

We sometimes admire jerks.

Leaving the C-suite to spend some time in a cubicle will teach you a lot about your own company.

If your audience is checking their watches, you're not.

I don't know you, but how much does it matter?

When your business is big enough, hiring a controller to keep watch on expenses is a smart move.

If you have no fear, you haven't been in business long enough to know better.

If somebody tells you price isn't important they are delusional.

Employees will suffer through pay freezes, no-bonus Christmas and downsizing but if there is no coffee you'll have a mutiny.

Yes, Amazon.

Taking the crew to lunch once a year between Thanksgiving and Christmas doesn't make up for taking them for granted the rest of the year.

It doesn't matter if you can't yet say 'President Trump.' A lot of people are depending on you to keep the business open, whatever the next four years brings.

Quitting so you come out ahead is good business. Throwing your career away because you're in a bad mood is something different.

Courtesy requires a simple response to an email, especially if it's from someone you know.

Remember Julius from 'Everybody Hates Chris'? His meme wasn't about being a cheapskate. It was about being frugal.

Why are 85 percent of recalled phones still in pockets, purses and airplanes despite danger of fire and explosion? For the same reasons people let their businesses slowly fall apart.

You should know this without being told but putting your politics in your employees' faces is making them really uncomfortable.

Business is mainly about numbers. If you don't understand that, you have more than a math problem to solve.

An entrepreneur who liked dogs far more than his corporate job looked walked a winding, messy path to launching his own business.

For everyone seeking an astronomically expensive and frustrating time suck with no health benefit, there is golf.

Seriously, you're "passionate" about organizational development? That sounds lonely.

Owning a business means being responsible for much more than you really have any control over.

Even the fairest of employers knows that, for some jobs, gender, age and physical ability are valid reasons for hiring one person and not another.

Nobody cares how busy you are, they only care what you get done.

If people don't want to read your e-prose, it's time to work harder at making it more interesting.

The more you study the conclusions of frivolous research, the more confidence you'll have in your gut instincts.

Your job might be on your nerves, but at least you're not paying to be there.

You could be a very comfortable cog in that very large machine. There are reasons why you went another way.

There is nothing wrong with "returning'' a call the prospect said they were going to give you but, apparently, has forgotten to.