Archive for March 1st, 2009

Mar.01.2009

Review: Results Without Authority

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal development, personal productivity, or career/entrepreneurship book.
One of the biggest struggles I had at my previous job was finding ways to get the project results I needed with very little authority to do many of the things I needed to do. I had a lot of [...]

Mar.01.2009

Are You Meeting Your Goals This Year?

How are your goals for 2009 coming along?  Any progress?  I outlined an action plan back in January to help make this my most productive year ever and thought it was time for a review.  As a reminder, I limited myself to three goals so that I could have a lot of focus on each of [...]

Mar.01.2009

The Cost of the Psychology of New

My wife and I are actively in the process of purchasing a replacement for the car my wife uses for her commute. During our initial search, we focused pretty tightly on late model used options, but as we searched, we began to find that, for many of the models we were looking at, the [...]