101 Things To Add To Your Business Bucket List

Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by in Speaking Professionally

101 Things To Add To Your Business Bucket List

“The only successful marriage I had was me and my work.”
- The Bucket List 2007 Jack Nicholson

1. Get fired

2. Quit a job

3. Take a sabbatical

4. Start a business

5. Sell a business

6. Get hired through the internet

7. Get hired through a recruiter

8. Work for a family member

9. Fire a family member

10. Work with your son or daughter

11. Take your child to work

12. Sell something

13. Negotiate something

14. Get a raise you asked for

15. Get a raise you didn’t deserve

16. Give your employee a raise he didn’t ask for

17. Fire an employee

18. Reprimand an employee

19. Work for a competitor

20. Work for a foreign owned company in the United States

21. Work for a foreign owned company in another country

22. Get paid in foreign currency

23. Take outplacement

24. Take a psychological test

25. Give a speech to 100 people

26. Give a speech to 1,000 people

27. Give a speech in a foreign country

28. Give a speech in a foreign country using a translator

29. Start an association

30. Deal with a union

31. Travel in first class for business

32. Travel around the world

33. Fly international first-class

34. Fly in a corporate jet

35. Stay in a 5-star hotel

36. Use a limo

37. Use a company car

38. Trade jobs for the day with someone in a totally different field

39. Hire a personal lawyer and accountant

40. Hire a public relations consultant

41. Hire an image consultant

42. Hire a speech writer

43. Get a corner office

44. Invent a product or service

45. Sell your invention or creation

46. Relocate for your company

47. Be an expert in your field

48. Get an additional degree

49. Take a course on some new technology

50. Learn a second or third language

51. Change career paths

52. Teach a workshop

53. Teach a college class

54. Have a business party in your home

55. Select a corporate gift

56. Organize a colleague’s going-away party

57. Send a note of appreciation to the parent of a subordinate

58. Send a note and flowers to the spouse of a hard worker

59. Golf or attend a social business function with a customer

60. Be on a company sport team

61. Wear a company logo

62. Go to the company Christmas party or picnic

63. Represent your company at a community event

64. Receive a reward

65. Wear a tux to a business black-tie event

66. Run a business special event

67. Run a business event overseas

68. Buy your company stock

69. Attend a stockholder meeting

70. Testify before congress on an industry issue

71. Attend the trial of a business friend - who hopefully gets acquitted

72. Google yourself

73. Sponsor a charity drive

74. Manage a team

75. Delegate

76. Recruit

77. Have dinner with your boss

78. Have dinner with your colleagues

79. Have dinner with your subordinates

80. Have dinner with your competitors

81. Compliment your CEO

82. Meet with your CEO

83. Visit the CEO’s office and sit in his or her chair

84. Write a resume

85. Write your life-story

86. Write a business article for publication

87. Contribute to or write a business book

88. Write a letter to the editor

89. Be interviewed for a business journal

90. Write a press release

91. Start a business publication

92. Learn to read an annual report

93. Read and use a self-help book

94. Read a business biography

95. Be on the cover of a magazine

96. Have an executive coach

97. Be an internal coach

98. Have an intern

99. Be an intern

100. Have a mentor

101. Be a mentor

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