Your iPad can sync with a lot of source in a lot of ways – directly over the air with MobileMe, for example, or with Google. You can mix and match syncing methods, but the number of combinations can become complex. This is page is going to with the simplest case: syncing by way of direct connection between your iPad and your computer. First, you connect your iPad to your computer and confirm a general option that controls how your iPad and iTunes ineract. Connecting your iPad and viewing general options: 1. Connect your iPad to your computer with the dock connector. If

I hate it when people ‘busk’ things because, while it may come off OK, it demonstrates a lack of caring about either the thing you are doing or the people you are doing it for. What you do matters. Your own treatment of it as something you yourself think is very important will communicate itself. Be keen not casual. Respond by…slowing things down Rushing around like a headless chicken has a kind of appeal to the speed junkies who sometimes pass for modern executives. Try the reverse. Try to slow everything down. You’ll find you listen better and that the person

Responsiveness is the key to a successful and happy career. If there is one single piece of advice that should dominate what you take this is it JACKIE MOMS MABLEY, THE AMERICAN COMEDIENNE who died in 1975, said: If you always do what you always did You will always get what you always got She was a smart lady who apparently faced down the Ku Klux Klan on one occasion – so she was a brave lady too. So, to be outstanding in this new world of service where the by-word is “customer service” you have to be brilliant at being responsive.

A film called The Wild Geese, released in 1979, featured the usual suspects – Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris – and was about a mercenary army in Africa. The sort of film you want to watch on a plane, or when you’re very tired, or when you’re short of inspiration, again and again. The message is the same. Professionals respect professionals and when they have a clear mission and the rate of pay has been agreed, they go and do it with somewhat more elan and purpose than a bench of idealists trying to raise their spirits at a

It’s best teams that win, not the most talented individuals We’ve all been there, first day in a new job. You know, that moment of discomfort. You can feel them eyeing you as you walk in the room trying to look nonchalant. You have already in a flash made up your mind about a few of the people there. You don’t like the one who sniffs all the time and Mr. Egghead clearly doesn’t like you and here comes Miss Bossy to make you feel at home. Yet being part of a team is the reality of the modern workplace and