Your greatest and not-so-greatest assets and why Fast Company is slowly boring me to death

The Schloss-Blog is wondering what you think of your assets. No, not those assets.

We mean assets like how being sensitive is your greatest one or why working moms are so miserable. Fast Company makes a habit - an asset - of publishing lists of your greatest and worst assets. Here are some of them and some other random thoughts this week on what's going down. Or up.

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Fast Company says there is a question you should ask your employees, if you're a boss. Ask it twice, in fact. The question? "How am I doing?"

Or is it "How are you doing?"

Ed Koch asked it all the time as mayor of New York City. It earned him two terms as NYC mayor.

So, the Schloss-Blog is asking, how you doing?

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Fast Company recommends six emails every job applicant should send if that applicant is serious about getting the job.

As an advisor to so many of my students for 23 years at Columbia College, I always told them to send one critical email: the thank you, post-interview email in which they reinforce their skills to the job opening and ability to make an immediate impact to the company.

It almost always works and generally distinguishes you from people who just send a thank you note and nothing more.

Six emails? Overkill.

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Fast Company recommends six ways to be a more trustworthy leader?

Of what? A company? A department? A military unit? A kitchen? A restaurant staff?

I've got one way: listen to what your people are saying a act on it to keep them happy.

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Fast Company says so many working moms are miserable.

Maybe they should work for someone who follows the six more-trustworthy ways to be a leader.

And they're not the only working parents who are miserable.

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Ever buy tickets from a reseller?

They are freakin' shysters with their add-on fees, conditions and delays in transferring tickets.

Remember when you used to be able to go to a box office and buy tickets at face value?

Me neither.

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At Mardi Gras, there was a shooting into a parade. That is like aiming at proverbial fish in a barrel.

Yet, someone is proposing legislation that would make the AR-15 the national gun.

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama (a Republican, as if you didn't know), is proposing such legislation.

Barry, haven't you got a feral pig to go shoot somewhere on Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-La.) property.

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Got Temu?

People are raving about it.

Favorable prices. Incredible range of brand-name goods.

Some reviewers have said though that Temu offerings are, to be colloquial, "...getting what you pay for."

I have not used Temu yet, I am addicted to amazon. 

Temu users, tell me, what's the deal? Thanks.

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Are you using ChatGPT?

Apparently, when Vanderbilt University used it to send condolences to Michigan State over the shootings there, the message was so contrite as to be insulting.

What do you think? Are you a Chat GPT fan? Or not?

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This just in: the NBA all-Star Game had its lowest TV ratings. Ever.

It was a joke and the NBA regular season has become a joke: it's all slam dunks or 3-pointers, one-on-one moves and no defense. No one plays defense until the playoffs.

Remember when guys used to set picks, drive and dish to the open man and draw a charge without flopping?

In other words, there will never be another 1973 NY Knicks.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson.

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