You know, it's so fun.ĬONAN: Here is one that we've gotten just in this hour. And when you write something like, you know, who doesn't love the payroll lady, and I call up Mindy in Portland to say you're a winner and she's a payroll lady. And my point is, no, in fact, you are a writer. You know, you won one of the prices and they say, oh, my God. And, you know, we really believe at Smith Magazine that if you ask regular people and most of these people, you know, I call them and I say, hey, you won. Yeah, sure, the worst ones are like bumper stickers, but the best are really good. You can - the best of these are very lyrical and tell great stories. But I kind of feel there's just a lot to learn about the workplace in just six words.ĬONAN: I remember books like, you know, "The 60 Second Manager" and that sort of stuff. And I feel like, you know, we're going to make a book, as we always, do of some of our favorites and you can read all the management books in the world and, you know, some of them are great. They said, all right, what if we added a populist kind of piece of this research and just ask people to place where people are used to selling up their life, their work lives, their love life, their own life in just six words. And they did all this data, massive research. You know, we - the six-word project is kind of - it's a compliment to a study this big consulting group, Mercer did. Watch your back, cover your butt - a very good six-word life lesson. SMITH: Right and, you know, just six words, but you sort of, you get the whole story right there. SMITH: And perhaps this is a corollary: Never completely disrobe at the office.ĬONAN: May have been fed in by the same person at different times.ĬONAN: Business suits suck. Why I do what I do, lessons, bosses, and what inspires me to do my very best work.ĬONAN: There are couple of others here from your website: Partied with managers, now I'm unemployed. But we got about 7,500 responses this summer around a few different topic areas. We've done six words on coming home from war with veterans groups. And what works for six words is when you tap in to something that people are passionate about, obviously, life, love. SMITH: Well, we've done a bunch of six-word memoir projects as you've mentioned. And we learned - when I talk to this woman, she was a nurse and it was about learning more from her patients than, you know, I think giving them and how these people really inspired her.ĬONAN: What kind of - what volume of response do you get with these contests, in this one in particular? to something like: the five patients I'll always remember, which was one of our winners of this contest. From the very specific: dwelled on past - became an anthropologist. You know, work - it's a tough time right now with people in jobs and the economy, but we saw a lot of really positive things in just six words. LARRY SMITH: Oh, so good to be here, Neal.ĬONAN: And one from the website, and it might hit close to home for you: Happiness is being your own boss. Joining us from our bureau in New York is Larry Smith, cofounder of Smith Magazine. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Email: You can also join the conversation on our website. Tell us your lessons learned, why you do what you do, even something about your boss, but boil it down to six words, please. We want to hear your six-word memoir about work on this Labor Day. For a few years now, they've been collecting six-word memoirs from Valentines Day to brushes with fame to pregnancy. It might be tough to sum up an entire career or years of pent-up anger in just six words, but the folks at Smith Magazine wants you to give it a shot. Link to the person who tagged you in your postĥ.NEAL CONAN, host: It's Labor Day, a time to celebrate, remember, commiserate about work. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you wantģ. Sarrah at The Most Happennest Place on EarthĪnd Jarron just to see if he would do it!!Ģ. So I need to give the wheel back to its rightful owner!
It is not worth it, as I have already ran into so many speed bumps that have jolted me so hard. I am tired of trying to MAKE my life happen. I am not saying I have totally given up all control because sometimes flesh will win out, but I have let God know that no matter what comes my way (stole that line from Jana :P), and no matter what happens, or where I go my life is finally in His hands. What can I say? It says it all in those six little words.
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