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The Valuable Office Professional

"My boss is always in crisis mode."" ""My boss never gives me all the information I need."" ""My boss doesn't understand what I do."" ""My boss never says thank you."" Sound familiar? It is the assistant who bears the brunt when manager and assistant are working ""out of synch."" This unique book shows assistants how to take charge of their relationship with their boss -- using a multitude of tools, tips, and interactive exercises to help assistants meet the challenge and make themselves indispensable. They will learn how to: * bridge communication and workstyle gaps with the boss * take responsibility for their own job satisfaction * focus on shared goals, both long-term and short- term * take purposeful actions aligned to their manager's actions * use specific techniques to ensure they and their managers work as a team * clarify priorities -- for themselves and for what their managers need

Nearly all business books deal with managing a company. The Valuable Office Professional, by Michelle Burke, addresses the usually neglected but nonetheless critical matter of managing a manager. Approaching issues from the perspective of the staff, Burke shows how to develop the assistant-boss relationship into a true partnership. Tips and exercises are included to help transform these often one-way associations into effective teams, even when the boss chooses not to see the assistant as a counterpart.

Used to be a stately transport. A limo in days gone by, pulled by sweat and muscle.
Today, we toil with our brains till we develop migranes, many still sweat it out in production floors and under rain and sun....many, manay more, in fact all of us toil with our tears and heart as well in our earthly shell and in the relationships that we foster and grow...and often get blown away.
" …I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? 28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? 31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” Matthew 6:25-33 NLT

This ball was the key to this shot from Sunday. The mission was a family and maternity shoot with a not always willing subject. Luckily I asked the parent's to bring a few precious toys. Whenever grumpiness started to set in we could just pull this ball back out and re-direct everything. I wish I had a valuable ball like this some days for myself, maybe I do with photography.

Strobist info:
Lastolite 24" softbox on a lightstand with a 580 EX II. 1/2 CTO Gel on Flash. Triggered with Radio Popper JrX and light adjusted with RP Cube.

Laugh-out-loud funny and dripping with style, this debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd.
From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe," these are characters youA’ve met before. TheyA’re quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers sprung from a world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions. Laugh-out-loud funny, absurd, and always human, Jack PendarvisA’s debut collection is the work of a writer of rare comedic literary talent.