I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
If I was a manager, I wouldn't want a 'nearly man' in my team. Not a chance.
It's always good, even in training, to show the manager what you can do and remind him.
I think managers see that I am honest.
When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.
Practice does make perfect and when you know what's asked of you by your manager and when he demands it you do it.
