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. NEAL CONAN, host: It's Labor Day, a time to celebrate, remember, commiserate about work.
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