A friend just sent me this link about how to be a Technical Lead. It is written for technical people by a technical person, but it really applies to anyone running a company that depends on technologists.
Especially note “Mistake #2,” which discusses motivation. One of the most common things I’ve found is managers who don’t [...]
Hey, I’m going to be on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams on Tuesday night, June 20th. Dawn Fratangelo and I will be discussing how to deal with email overload. Make sure to tune in!
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I just finished Make Your Own Luck by Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson. What a great book!
My background is in engineering and science, then business. As an engineer, I really liked that there’s a “right answer.” Or at least, there are clear wrong answers (the bridge will collapse if we make it out of tissue [...]
Welcome to 21st Century Business - We’d like to think working smart will bring us kudos. But what if your boss won’t let you? Stever explores reasons you might not be able to work smart, no matter how much sense it makes.
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Oops. Ernst & Young just let the personal data and credit card numbers of 243,000 HOTELS.COM subscribers get stolen, via that old standby: a stolen laptop. And these people call themselves auditors, supposedly qualified to judge the accounting integrity of American business? It’s no wonder that hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud have been [...]
Creating a culture or a community is more than simply spouting values or saying “We’re all in this together.” (The embedded player may have trouble playing this segment, so you may wish to download and play the mp3 file.)
