Steven W. Martin, writing for Harvard Business Review Blog Network: Based upon my research, experience, and observations, I estimate over 70 percent of top salespeople are born with “natural” instincts that play a critical role in determining their sales success. Conversely, less than 30 percent of top salespeople are self-made — meaning, they have had
Read More...First, there was planking. Today, there’s Batmanning. If you didn’t have weekend plans, you do now. ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...I’m traveling during this week and next, so because of that, the next few Friday posts are going to seem…um…random. I’m typing this post on my iPhone (not really) in a cold European coffee shop (no), and the Internet connection is unreliable (not true). So before my iPhone battery dies (lie) or the dampness fries
Read More...Tom Simonite, writing for MIT’s Technology Review: A data repository almost 10 times bigger than any made before is being built by researchers at IBM’s Almaden, California, research lab. The 120 petabyte “drive”—that’s 120 million gigabytes—is made up of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together. The giant data container is expected to store around
Read More...Home power users have known about solid-state drives (SSDs) for a few years now. At 18 times the cost of a standard hard drive, they are expensive. They have nowhere near the storage capacity (yet) that HDs can offer. They’re way up on the commoditization curve, and won’t be down with HDs for quite some
Read More...Punchfork is a very impressive recipe aggregator that pulls recipes and their associated metadata from around the web, including social aspects like ranks and ratings. Instead of going bananas trying to hit all your favorite cooking sites for an interesting Saturday night recipe, give Punchfork a try. ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter
Read More...Last week I told you I would help you write a compelling letter or email to help you ask your coworkers to sponsor your kid in his or her fundraising event. So here goes. You may think this advice is nutty, but trust me: since I’ve been using it, I’ve been very successful in having
Read More...Bill Kutik talks about Oracle’s perception problem with Fusion after their five years of secrecy, what the early adopters so far look like, and how customers are slowly looking at Fusion in earnest. But an interesting subplot is the Oracle v. Workday cage match that’s going on, one that will be ultimately considered a function
Read More...So Boy Genius Report got everyone pretty worked up when they wrote last week’s article entitled, Adobe Finally Brings Flash to iPhone and iPad. I got not one but several emails asking me what this really means, and one telling me that the day had come: Apple devices now support Flash and I’m wrong when I
Read More...Reflecting back on 9/11, I came across this over the past weekend. Worth a read even after the fact. Here’s Steve Hendrix, writing for the Washington Post: Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She
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