MBA Geek

An interesting page on CNN outlines the top 100 best companies to work for. The top three are SAS, Edward Jones and Wegmans but there are also a number of other well known names in there. It doesn’t matter if you went to the best business school or just followed one of those medical coding training courses, it’s good to have faith in your employer and to know you work somewhere that you can be proud of.

So, are you happy where you work? Is your company in the list?

How good are you at selling yourself? Your products? Your accomplishments? Well, if you’re not all that hot, it’s best to start working on it. This was the message I read when digesting a recent article on Business Week called Lessons from Google’s Underwhelming Nexus One Show which analyses the recent announcement on the Google Nexus One phone and in particular compares it to the iPhone announcement 3 years ago. Delivering your message is one of the critical factors you are continually assessed on, by customers and peers; so it’s worth taking note and making sure you can do this effectively. It’s not just a matter of throwing promotional products at people and hoping that something will stick, successful delivery will always be key in any walk of life.

Do you know what personality type you are? Well, you may have some ideas, but it’s good to take a personality test to find out. It’s good to know because the way you interact with others is very much dependant on your personality type; and what their personality type is too. One good test is the Myers-Brigg test and the closely related Jung test. It’s always good to evaluate yourself, especially as we all change over time. The last thing you want it to start a medical assisting certification course and then find that it’s really not the right thing for you. So click on the link below and find out what personality type you are.

Take the test!

It’s quite interesting having a Maltese background and working here in the UK. Not that things are so different here, but my experiences are different from the people around me. That gives me a double benefit. On one side, I’ve seen ideas and executions that are different to what the people around me have experiences. This helps me inject new ideas into what’s going on around me. On the other hand, it provides an opportunity for me to learn from initiatives that have happened when I wasn’t around, thus enriching my own thinking. I’ve read that the UK is making changes around letting Highly Skilled Migrant Workers into the country, hopefully this will have the effect of increasing diversity around us, rather than closing off this avenue.