The99percent.com has posted Simon Sinek’s talk about leadership, trust, authenticity and meaning. Sinek is a well-known ethnographer and leadership expert, and here he argues that everything we say and do is a symbol of who we really are. He also argues something I’ve said several times over on this blog: if you communicate genuinely, without
Read More...We’ve been saying for a few weeks now that PeopleTools 8.52 is shaping up to be quite a powerful release, and we recently learned of three other new enhancements that are sure to make developers happy — especially if they’re into PeopleTools AppDesigner. Here’s the one we hear about quite a bit, as detailed by
Read More...Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch: The real news are the numbers we’re hearing from multiple sources close to the company. Dropbox is looking to raise between $200 million and $300 million according to these sources. In terms of valuation, thecompany has already had multiple offers at a valuation north of $2 billion range, and recently more
Read More...Economists will give elevator dissertations on the power of incentives, and the classic book Freakonomics (and its excellent podcast) often go into following the incentive trail to understand a certain behavior/non-behavior. In a recent interview, Warren Buffett gave his his own take on the power of incentives, offering forth this example to emphasize his point: “I
Read More...I have a Bengal cat. I was told that Bengals are high energy and fun, the kind of pet that would negate what I always considered cats to be: lethargic, antisocial sociopaths of the domesticated pet world. Looking back, I was told all this by the same people who say clowns aren’t terrifying. It goes
Read More...eWeek’s Nathan Eddy, writing about Dice.com’s Dice Report and its trend showing a rise in resume searches for PeopleSoft technicians: The fourth trend concerns PeopleSoft Security. Hill said businesses use Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications to manage complex systems, from finances to human capital and supply chains to CRM databases, and PeopleSoft Security uses a hierarchical approach
Read More...It’s the middle of summer, and nothing says hamburgers quite like this time of the year. So, from 1967’s The Celebrity Cookbook comes this recipe for Dean Martin’s ‘Martin Burgers’: Bourbon and a TV tray. Nice touches. (Via kottke) ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...PeopleTools 8.51 introduced the PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), a feature that allows for the automated testing of a PeopleSoft application. PTF also is powerful in that in can help developers understand the impact of how a change will impact the application before it moves into production. In the upcoming PeopleTools 8.52 release (discussed here previously),
Read More...Shot right here in Michigan in the city of Grand Rapids, Roger Ebert calls this ‘the greatest music video ever made’. That’s called starting your week right. (Via Daring Fireball) ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...When I tell people I do web/social media marketing work, that basically I’m a full-on web nerd, they look at me funny. Like, “Oh, how long have you been unemployed?” funny. After we get past that initial awkwardness, they invariably ask two things: (1) Can social media help my business? And (2) What is your
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