I did not get to 20Booksto50K in Vegas this year, as my health was not up to it. While I don’t miss the city or the altitude inbetween, I did miss the hugs, the networking, and the excellent business classes. Due to an uninterrupted chain of errors, I also failed to get a virtual attendee ticket in time.
Therefore, while I did my best to glean the highlights from friends who went, I had to wait until the videos from the recorded sessions dropped to watch…
But they’re finally here!
So while I’m hiding in my hole recovering from two social events in one night, as ’tis the season for Christmas parties, we can both enjoy hours of interesting panels.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCl3DWM-P5iOeSpeoZ0Pp2d79z7AFQAIP
Enjoy!
Mad Genius Club 
12 responses to “Business Research!”
Thank you for the link!
Like I always say, 90% of getting (and keeping) a job is:
1. Show up for work
2. Every day
3. On time
4. Sober
5. Do the job!
It’s depressing how many people can’t manage to meet one or more of those simple qualifications.
It’s about reliability — that’s the minimum requirement. If you want to be promotable, on top of that… be interested, suggest improvements, ask about how things work, volunteer, learn from those around you.
Thank you for sharing! I know what I’m going to be listening to this week in my data entry sessions.
2 and 8 seem to be sadly lacking in today’s generation… Case in point- Assembling critical assemblies (16) to deploy off a leased RV with a strict timeline. At the pier in Hawaii, so no internet connection, on a Friday with underway scheduled for Monday 0800. Grad students that had ‘volunteered’ to come on the test as worker bees (read get a paid trip to Hawaii), showed up on time but with NO assembly manuals! Their statement- “Oh, we were going to download them and work off the computers.” Sent him back to the hotel to download/print/pay for 3 hard copies.
By 1600, we had assembled six of sixteen units when they started closing stuff down. I asked what they were doing, and was told, “Oh, we’re done for the day. We’ll be back Monday to get underway.” They were NOT thrilled when I told them they weren’t leaving until we had 10 units assembled, and would be back in at 0800 Saturday to finish the other 6, then load them aboard ship, configure them, and secure them for sea.
2 of 3 showed up Saturday morning, the third was ‘too hungover’, and had complained to his dean about his ‘treatment’ by the Test Director (me). I fired his ass, told him not to bother coming to the pier, and that he would not be going on the test.
Then it got interesting! He lost, and we never got another grad student on any of our tests…
Alas, that sounds like the younger cohort when I was in grad school. Those of us who had been out in the “real world” tended to be over-prepared with books, paper, (laptop if so inclined), pens, spare pens, pencils (archivists hate pens), and notes from the books as well as the books. Some of the younger set skimmed the chapter headings and called it good. They thought the prof wouldn’t know. Heh.
Yep, the ‘real world’ jumped up and bit ALL of them, one a bit more than the others…sigh
A lot of grad students are also smart enough that they’ve been able to coast up to that point, and skimming the chapter headlines really has been enough to get them through the first 17 or 18 years of school. I remember it was a shock to me the first time I was given a test and had no idea how to answer most of the question. It wasn’t until I got the second one of those that I figured out, “Yeah, I really need to start studying and preparing.”
On the plus side, I was always too cheap to get drunk in bars, so I wouldn’t have been the student too hungover to show up for work the second day.
Doesn’t help that our pre-college studies were, if anything, designed to give us poor study habits.
In defense of the two grad students who showed up Saturday morning, I suspect that there was a failure to communicate what they were expected to do.
No, they ‘ignored’ what the PhD who was the principal investigator at the U told them.
Well. A good reason to spend way too much time on the tube.
Thank you.