Category Archives: Basic Business Concepts

UPDATE: Add CCI Camera City Inc., 342 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY 11223 to your list of online camera shops to avoid. CCI has the same address as Royal Camera! If you Google "CCI Camera City problems", you will find the … Continue reading →

Talk to any successful person about the things that changed their lives for the better, and I’ll wager in most cases, the things that changed their lives were major failure they overcame. The ability to deal with failure is an … Continue reading →

Amit Gupta arranged for Danger Quicksand to become a ChangeThis manifesto and it has been downloaded 3,055 times in the last six days. I called him today to thank him for this additional exposure and to find out who my unexpected benefactor is and what else he has been doing.

Amit went to Amherst College, in Amherst, Mass. He spent a few years at Amherst before departing to set up a college marketing/advertising company, The Daily Jolt -a college network run by students. 

That was five years ago and the company is still going strong and is still profitable. You can see the value proposition on this advertising page.

Amit eventually returned to Amherst and got degrees in Computer Science and in Economics after serving a few months on a project with the World Health Organization in New Delhi.

He joined Seth Godin as an intern on the ChangeThis project last summer. ChangeThis publishes manifestos that deserve a wider audience and they have a list of free downloads that bear investigation.

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Lying is the attempt to say that something did happen when it didn’t or that something didn’t happen when it did. It is an alteration of the truth in order to avoid censure or punishment.

I am sure that you have figured out by now that some promises you were given when you started your present job are probably not going to be kept. I thought you might like to know why that happens and what you can do about it.

Most of us realize that hemming and hawing (dancing around the issue of merit increases or continuing employment) are a sign of the evasive maneuver known as stalling, which leads eventually to a flat denial that a promise was ever made. This is often followed by criticism of your work and a threat that you need to improve your attitude if you expect to continue as an employee.

Not all managers lie, by any means, but when they do it is a crushing experience that leaves you bitter and vowing never to be caught like that again. And you won’t be caught in that same way, but you will be caught in some other way by a manager who is ever so convincing until it’s time to pay up or give you the promotion. etc.

Managers lie for the same reason the rest of us lie, when and if we lie.  🙂  They are afraid to come clean with us.

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