Okay.. so maybe that’s a little melodramatic, but I really do believe that there are certain things which make business so much easier that giving them up would be foolish. Here are my top 10 things I wouldn’t want to work without:
10. Coffee – Nothing quite like a caffeine high when you come into the office in the morning to get you started on a productive day!
9. Business Card Holder – Okay, so this is the “Paperless” perspective, but sometimes, a good old fashion rolodex or business card book is just convenient. Take trade shows for example, everyone gives you business cards! Now, since it is the Paperless Perspective….
8. ScanR – Easily scan business cards, documents, whiteboards, and more from your cell phone. Convert your business cards into contact records, change your documents to PDFs, and even send faxes from your blackberry!
7. A Good CRM - Okay, have to throw a TempWorks ploy in here because it’s what I use, but if you use Salesforce, or if you create a homegrown system out of Microsoft Access, it doesn’t matter as long as it does what you need!
6. Social Networking – No longer is it just for your teenage daughter! If you don’t have a blog, a twitter account, a LinkedIn account, or a facebook account, you are missing out on valuable contacts, information, prospects, and advice!
5. Wireless Headset – Stuck to your phone by a cord--having to hold up a handset—no thanks! On conference calls, I need to pace around, write on whiteboards, type on a keyboard, and sometimes throw darts at my magnetic dart board that I got from my secret Santa, Maria Dourgarian, last year. To do this, I need a headset that doesn’t tie me down!
4. Adding Machine – What!? Is that old-school or what? Okay, so I know formulas. I know programming. I know operations and payroll and taxes. But for the life of me, I can’t do numbers. A little paper track of what I am doing math-wise is very helpful for when I FUBAR some numbers.
3. Lumbar-Supportive Chair – It’s amazing how much you can pay for fancy looking, crummy chairs and how little it costs to get a chair from Office Depot that is 100 times better than the fancy ones! A little support goes a long way for a computer geek like those I work with.
2. Remote Desktop - If I was unable to do some work from home every once in a while, I would never be able to leave the office. Sometimes, the most productive I get is when I am not at the office and have no phones ringing, no emails popping up, and no people needing help with something. You can get a lot accomplished when there are no distractions.
1. Good People – If you work with people who don’t like what they do, and don’t think of their role as a career, then you are going to be miserable coming into work. You see, bad moods are contagious. Surround yourself by good people and good things will happen.
What wouldn’t you want to live without? Let me know if there are some things I need to download, buy, try out, etc. I am always in the market for new innovations for business productivity!
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