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How to Manage Email

By dave

Save Yourself! Three Smart Email Strategies that Can Save Your Job!
By Mike Song

As Hillary Clinton, CIA leaders, Sony executives and countless other professionals have recently learned, a single email can damage your career aspirations, reputation, marriage or company’s stock price. Here are 3 useful strategies that every professional should use to avoid getting destroyed by email and other forms of e-communication:

1. Take an Anger Management Timeout.
The biggest problem with intense emotion is momentum. When someone ticks you off and the hair stands up on the back of your neck, you start typing like a train gathering speed, and you just won’t be happy until you’ve hit the send button and gotten your revenge. When that angry email bomb gets forwarded to your boss or the media, it’s either a PR or HR disaster and the first victim is always you. One message can get you get fired or send the stock price of a company into a tailspin.

Solution: Scream into your pillow, but don’t scream at colleagues, friends, or family members via email or social media. Be circumspect. Take 24 hours, cool down, and take the high road! When your abrasive or underperforming colleague sees that you aren’t going to lash out, they will think of you as a super-cool professional. And sometimes – when you’re flat wrong – the 24 hour rule saves you from looking like a complete idiot! A little frustration is OK – but anger and sarcasm are deadly.

2. Avoid ALL Conjecture.
In the case of Sony, playful conjecture about stars and politicians – what movies would the president like? – rapidly turned into a PR nightmare. One of my pharma clients hired me after they got hit by a $5 million lawsuit. An employee had “wondered” in an email if their drug could cause a cardio side effect. When real problems emerged years later, this email–which had no basis in fact — cost them big time. When we wonder, hint, joke, use innuendo, or make statements about stuff we don’t fully understand, that can lead to painful, career-limiting discussions with HR and Legal.

Solution: Stay away from the grey! This means avoid grey-area discussions and theories –try to stick to facts. If you aren’t certain of all the facts, shut up, step away from your iphone and gather info. Focus on what people actually do vs. what they might do in certain hypothetical situations. Leave the murky scenarios to your competition and take the high road via factual statements. Be smart, be concise, be clear and you will stay out of trouble. Remember, email is slippery and sticky–it slips out of your outbox and out of your control –but it sticks in the real world forever! There’s no recall button with email.

3. Dump the Personal Junk.
That questionable joke, harmless flirtation, or your unfiltered feelings about your spouse or world events could hurt you! Do you vent via IM or text to a close colleague? These seemingly innocent messages can be easily found by new software that sweeps everyone’s email for keywords. Other software allows your company to see your keystrokes even when you are on your personal Gmail account! Joking about a terrorist? Slamming the personal habits of your customer or competitor? Hate a prominent politician? Bad idea. Your company owns your email–they can look at it anytime. Heck, they may be looking at it right now. That’s their right, and you could get fired for something you are doing in your personal life.

Solution: Living a good, clean life is the obvious first step. Avoid snarky sexist, racist, ethnic, or political commentary on the job. But also, be smart. Treat every message from every device–smartphones, tablets, and PCs — like it’s going to be uploaded and disseminated to millions via YouTube, Vine and Facebook. How does that message look now? If the answer is….Yikes…then stop before it’s too late!

http://www.getcontrol.net

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Reason Tagged With: CIA, Email, Hilary Clinton, Mike Song

Two Friends and the Truth about Washington Politics

By dave

What you have here is a totally unscripted discussion between two friends about the state of our country and our political leaders.

As always Megan brings her A-game to a political discussion. Her wish and mine would be that the people of this great country would start listening more to the alternatives to the main stream media where they would get less agenda and more truth.

Megan Barth is the founder and proprietor of ReaganBaby.com and a nationally recognized political commentator. She has appeared on NewsMax TV, One America News Network, America Trends with Dr. Gina, The Blaze Radio, and has regular weekly appearances on a variety of nationally syndicated radio shows.

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Self-Esteem Tagged With: Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, megan barth, politics, washington

Carly vs. Hilary

By dave

“Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton will cross paths Wednesday in South Carolina. And the Republican — the only woman among the vast GOP field — will try to show up Clinton by holding a regular old press conference.

Clinton has been under fire of late for avoiding reporters’ questions at her campaign events. She did take questions last week in Iowa and New Hampshire, but has often walked away from the shouting throng penned behind the ropes.

“Carly Fiorina is speaking in downtown Columbia, SC on Wednesday. And guess what? So is Hillary Clinton,” Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah I. Flores wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

“We know it must be hard covering the Hillary for America But Against Transparency campaign,” Flores said.”

www.reaganbaby.com

 

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Self-Esteem Tagged With: Carly Fiorina, dishonest, Hilary Clinton, truth

Hilary Clinton: The Ice Queen Cometh

By dave

Hillary, The Ice Queen, cometh in a much-anticipated, perfectly manicured and scripted video, announcing her candidacy for President of the United States. Delivering the script with about as much warmth and life as found in a Planned Parenthood clinic, the script could have been easily written and produced by John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. “Everyday Americans Need a Champion” and Her Championesse has arrived on her Royal Vessel…. a ScoobyDoo Bus….whose name is Mystery. Mystery is now parked in Ohio, driven by a secret service agent because Hillary, the every day American, hasn’t touched a steering wheel since 1996.

According to Hillary, her flight miles are her achievements. Yet her #ReadyForHillary passengers don’t even list her travel miles as her achievements. #TeamHillary can’t even list one, unless you include Myanmar. The public/press is continually reminded that it is her gender and her “struggle” for women and income equality that makes her the right woman at the right time. History must be made. Again.

Stumbling out of the gate, much like the launch of Obamacare.gov, her long awaited arrival on Sunday was plagued with broken links, typos and expectations. One would think that this heroine of every day Americans would have included a link on her website to her platform of life-changing policies and issues, but those links were absent, much like Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s endorsement. Mayor De’Blasio is withholding his endorsement until he sees what her positions are related to her future promises of solving inequality to provide justice. I assume Mayor De’Blasio would list one of Hillary’s achievements as getting him elected as the “first” socialist Mayor of New York and thank her impeached husband for swearing him in on Inauguration Day

Additionally pathetic and ironically true is that many mysteries surround the Ice Queen and her gravitas. So much mystery in fact, that for the first time in history, the AP has sued a presidential candidate due to her lack of transparency. For the first time in history, a secretary of state created her own private server to conduct state department business and unilaterally decided which documents would be saved for the recording of our nation’s history, at a time in our nation’s history when: the world witnessed an Arab Spring which gave a foothold to terrorists in former allied countries, an ignored Green Movement which arose from the rigged Iranian elections, a potential nuclear arms race in the middle east, the continued spread of terror through territorial gains by ISIS, and a reset button with Putin which the Ukrainian’s wouldn’t hail as an achievement.

When #TeamHillary selectively destroys 30,000 emails, every day Americans should have some questions and Hillary should have some answers outside of “What difference does it make?!?!” The difference to me is found in the amount of ice which must course through someone’s veins to be able to willingly and knowingly lie while delivering a eulogy in front of four flag-draped caskets. (video)

But for those who are #ReadyForHillary, lies don’t make this timely woman. Victimhood and pedigree are her strengths. To question her and her record are answered with shouts of conspiracy or sexism. To seek the truth is a witch hunt. I can actually agree with that analogy.

www.reaganbaby.com

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Self-Esteem Tagged With: Hilary Clinton, megan barth, moral behavior, politics, secretary of state

The Dave Campbell Show 01/30 | Blog Talk Radio

By dave

The Dave Campbell Show 01/30 by AZlipsticklady | Blog Talk Radio.

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Reason Tagged With: Attraction, Eloquence, Hilary Clinton, influence, knowledge, power

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