Friday Fun Video: Life Imitates Email

Monday Therapy: Deciphering Work Emails

Translating work email-ese into plain English!

Master and Apprentice: Women Mentoring Too Much?

Hmmmm.

Monday Therapy: Design Jargon BS

It's more or less the business version of Nerdish.  Now here's a blog that collects examples from the real world! For instance:

"We formulated a Brand Platform recommendation and an executive consultant facilitated a session to gather input from the working team to refine and finalize the Brand Platform."

Monday Therapy: Shelved

It's Monday and it's back to work for us all, so here's a brilliant video from Auckland's Media Design School. Slight language warning.

Best Résumé Ever?

Not only was it memorable, but it landed its creator a job!

Chinese Office Supplies: Guy Outsources Own Job

Well, it's certainly a ... er ... creative approach.  *slow clap*

Monday Therapy: Office Coffee

Ugh, it's Monday. Time to chug a potful of coffee so we can get our work done ... We might as well have some fun with the whole idea of coffee at the office!

Monday Therapy: Office Meeting

The Evolution of the Business Card

Here's a bit of quirky history.  La Parisienne and I also recommend that you watch the business card scene from American Psycho.  Still, this remains my favorite business card of all time, along with this.

Awesome: Most Delicious Business Card Ever?

YUM!  Do you think it's a better business card than this or this, though?

Book Reviews: Corporate Conquerors

Let's take some business lessons from some of history's most effective conquerors, shall we?  In two different books, Hannibal and Julius Caesar invade the corporate boardroom.

Monday Therapy: Best Business Card Ever?

It's Monday, so we're all back in the office or the classroom, and we might have need of business cards ... so I've found the best one in existence.  Of course it's a joke ... and a splendid one.  I need to come up with some awesomely hilarious cards, since the Opera Diva has done just that for herself.  I really want to put "freelance berserker," "scribe for hire," and "breaker of horses and freshmen" on mine.  For now, though, feast your eyes on this:

Actually, This Explains A Lot

Your leader might be a psychopath.  I'm pretty sure this applies to more than just the business community.  (Still, La Parisienne, it's time to re-watch "American Psycho"!)

Monday Therapy: Epic Office Post-It War

Behold the Great French Post-It War of 2011 between two companies!  Go, look, and marvel.  Here's the story also as reported in a French newspaper -- Vive la guerre des Post-It!

Nerd News: Bookmark Notepads

Brilliant!  I really don't like writing in books, so I'm always sticking tiny Post-It notes in them. The "guilty pleasure" bookmark notepad is especially nice.  I really should get it, since in this season of Nerdpocalypse Now, a "guilty pleasure" book is any book that has nothing to do with my research.  Heh.  When was the last time you could count Shakespeare as a "guilty pleasure"?  By the way, Knock Knock, the folks who offer those bookmarks, has a ton of other entertainingly cool gifts and cool bookmarks, so take a look!

Monday Therapy: Post-It Love

It's Monday, and lots of you are back in the office.  Here's an adorable short film that has no dialogue but a lot of charm to soothe that pain.  You may recognize the young fellow in it -- Lee Ingleby was Gustave in "Ever After" and Stan Shunpike in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."

The US Economy, Workplace Need More Puppies

Well, DUH!

Friday Fun Video: Awesome Office Prank at Sega

A Sega employee goes on holiday for three weeks ... so watch his co-workers turn his cubicle into a real-life Sonic the Hedgehog scenario!

A Memo Pad of Honest Practicality

By the wags at Knock Knock: