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Review: ‘Works Well With Others,’ by Ross McCammon

WorksWellWithOthers-coverOne of the most helpful business books I’ve ever read (Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up) was written by a columnist for Esquire (Stanley Bing, who has since left that magazine to write for Fortune). So when I heard that another Esquire columnist (Ross McCammon) had written a business book, I was eager to give it a read. Continue reading “Review: ‘Works Well With Others,’ by Ross McCammon”

Missouri S&T is hiring for our web team

We’re building up our web team at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) for some exciting things in the future.

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We’re hiring two positions focused on web, digital communications and social media to double our dedicated online/web staff to four. (That may not sound like a lot, but members of our web team work in a highly collaborative environment with other communications pros — writers and editors, graphic designers, videographers, a photographer — and work closely with members of our IT staff. So there’s a lot of talent working together to make great things happen.)

If you’re looking for an opportunity to help reinvent our web presence for an adaptive, responsive future, these two positions offer great opportunities for the right people. Plus, you’ll be joining a fun and award-winning communications team.

We’re looking for:

  • One User Interface Designer to bridge the back-end work of our web developer to the outside world. We’re looking for someone who can see the online world through the user’s eyes and visualize and create that smart and beautiful interface. If you have experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces and the ability to effectively communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale, this is the job for you.
  • One Digital Communications Coordinator to create web content for our top-level sites and help other units across campus create compelling content. If you love creating web content, breathing life and personality into existing content, and think editing makes everything better, then this may be the job for you. This new position will write, create, edit and maintain content on university websites and social media outlets.

Deadline to apply is March 18, so get your resumes and applications in post haste, or pass along the news to your contacts who might be interested. As always, feel free to reach out to me (acareaga AT mst DOT edu) if you have questions.

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We are looking for a web programmer

The communications department at Missouri S&T is seeking a web programmer (details here). If you do web programming and want to work with a group of talented communicators, I hope you’ll consider applying. The deadline to apply is Oct. 8.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line as well (andrew DOT careaga @ gmail DOT com).

Labor Day thoughts: Relax, and enjoy your work

Office_FlickrCombing through my zillions of Twitter favorites this Labor Day morning, I ran across these two gems from last February.

Both posts seemed to be appropriate reads for this day set aside to honor and recognize the achievements of the American worker, so I thought I’d share them.

If you’re off the grid for this holiday — and I hope most of you are — then perhaps this will make good reading for the coming, short workweek.

1. Joy at work: It’s your right. This Harvard Business Review post by Allison Rimm, an executive coach, is a must-read for all of us who don’t want to let go of the details for fear of losing control. Rimm writes that “achieving joy at work is not only possible; it’s a necessity.”

I’ve come to appreciate that happiness on the job is a leading indicator of an individual’s ability to sustain high levels of passion, performance, and productivity over the long run. If we can uncover our true gifts and find work that makes regular use of them, we’ve fulfilled our responsibility to use them wisely and we’ve optimized our chances for claiming our right to enjoy the process.

Maybe it’s just an amplification of that trite cliche: Do what you love and love what you do. But Rimm is on to something here. If you’re going to do work, you should enjoy it. And you have a right to enjoy it. (Hat tip to Kim McGrath of Wake Forest University for sharing the post on Twitter.)

2. Relax! You’ll be more productive. This New York Times piece by Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, In this article, Schwartz talks about the importance of taking breaks during the work day to enhance performance. “The importance of restoration is rooted in our physiology,” he writes. “Human beings aren’t designed to expend energy continuously. Rather, we’re meant to pulse between spending and recovering energy.”

So plan to build some breaks into your work this week. You’ll be better off, and so will your organization. (And if you can sneak in a nap every now and then, so much the better.)

(Hat tip to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who knows a thing or two about being productive, for the share.)

Update, thanks for Mike Petroff, who shared this):

3. Slowing the work treadmill. Harvard business professor Teresa Amabile on why we would be better off doing less. “In the short term,” she says, “people become less engaged in their work if their creativity isn’t supported. They will also be less productive because they often can’t focus on their most important work. In the long term, companies may lose their most talented employees, as well as losing out because they won’t have the innovative products, innovative services, and business models that they need to be competitive.”

Photo: Hard Day at the Office, by Craig Sunter-Click 64.