Productivity : useful and dark corners of Excel

Posted by asmaklad in Thursday, March 8th 2012 under: Excel, Management, PC Utilities, Productivity Tools Tags: Automation, Excel, Office, Productivity

Everybody knows Excel. The world’s leading spreadsheet application. but do we really use it to do just spread-sheets editing or can we do more with it? Excel could be used to Automate tasks, to analyze data and go beyond just creating reports. In this article I try to expose some of the functionalities I mostly [...]

Writing a proposal for management with NABC.

Posted by asmaklad in Thursday, November 25th 2010 under: Management, Productivity Tools, Requirements, Wiki Tags: management, NABC, Needs, Office, Professional

One morning, while you are taking the elevator to get to your office, you meet the CIO, you have 3 minutes time-window where you have the attention of CIO and you need to convince him about an idea you have. What would you say ? In which order you will discuss your ideas and arguments? We all [...]

How to publish your Power Point PPT presentation to the web?

Posted by asmaklad in Monday, September 27th 2010 under: Open Office, Productivity Tools, Web Technologies Tags: Creative Commons, HTML, Internet Publishing, License, Macro media flash, Office, OpenOffice, PDF, Power Point, PPT, SWF

I have been trying to publish some of my Power Points to the web for a while now, and I was looking for an easy and straight forward way to Export *.PPT files in to a web-friendly format. In this short article I will explain the steps taken to publish my work to the Internet. [...]

Someone Over-rating his own skills! Sounds Familiar?

Posted by asmaklad in Tuesday, September 21st 2010 under: Office Conflicts, Psychology, Wiki Tags: Office, Psychology, Wiki

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Dunning–Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while [...]