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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Record Narration in PowerPoint, How to

How to record narration in PowerPoint

Learned Helplessness - Cure it

How to overcome Learned Helplessness in a Company; Change Management

Calculate a Full Month in Microsoft Excel

Problem: I had to calculate how many PTO hours employees should be accruing.  If an employee’s  tenure was 0-35 months, the accrual was 15 days of PTO per year.  If an employee’s tenure was 36 to 59 months, the accrual was 20 days per year.  If an employee’s tenure was =>60 months, the accrual was […]

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Great fonts - free for personal use

free fonts

Salary Calculator, by Catbert

Try Catbert’s salary

Muphry’s Law

Murphry’s Law … and that’s not a typo.
John Bangsund of ThreePenny planet writes:
Muphry’s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy’s Law. Muphry’s Law dictates that (a) if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written; (b) if an author thanks you […]

Free Samples

Don’t give free samples away, unless they are really free.

How much is that Company worth?

How to value your company

Why College Football Should be Abolished - a writing lesson for 1950s college students

How to improve your writing, a lesson from the 1950’s