And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts
It’s the first Friday of the Year of the Horse, making it time for the first Five Favorites for Friday post of the year. As a reminder, every Friday, I do an entry in this series, each of which covers five topics, posts, articles, podcasts or videos that caught my attention over the preceding week
Boxing Day is my favorite post-holiday holiday, similar in many ways but better than the day after Thanksgiving, because the latter has, over the years, been overtaken by pressure to either shop or get started on end of the year rushes for work. Boxing Day, at least for me, suffers from none of that.
Boxing
So much to choose from to write about this week, but I am, by my own rules for this series of posts, limited to five topics. I noted last week that there was a risk I would beat holiday jokes into the ground this month, and here I go again, starting with an article about
For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death
I wasn’t quite sure what to do about Five Favorites for Friday this week, given that today is an unofficial holiday, Black Friday. I couldn’t move it up a day, as that would require publishing it on an actual national holiday, Thanksgiving.
And I didn’t want to move it up to the middle of the
Busy, busy week. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put Thanksgiving in the fourth quarter but they probably should have given a little more thought to whether a three day week in the middle of the last quarter of the year really makes sense.
Oh well, as I pointed out
This week, I cheated. I have known since Tuesday that I wasn’t going to have time to either blog or post on LinkedIn this week on even a small portion of the articles, ideas, podcasts and presentations that were crossing my desk and catching my eye. So I started writing this week’s Five Favorites for