“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” — Indira Gandhi So simple, yet so difficult. In fact, management and workplace guru Bob Sutton
Read More...Let’s do a quick follow up on last week’s post that announced the arrival of the PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition. An easy, comprehensive search function within PeopleSoft apps has been oft-requested, and lo and behold, Matthew Haavisto of The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has the good news: As you may have seen from the PeopleTools 8.52 Release
Read More...Recently, Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address to Dartmouth’s 2011 graduating class. Way up in Internet fame already sit Steve Job’s classic address to Stanford, and David Foster Wallace’s speech to Kenyon College. Both of those are smart speeches, steeped in wisdom, bearing heartfelt reflections of difficult roads, personal letdowns and victories. This one…this one
Read More...“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would
Read More...AdvertisingAge: Mr. Wallace, RIM’s top digital marketer, is defecting to Samsung Mobile, where he’ll be VP-strategic marketing for the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter. While Mr. Wallace oversaw all things digital at RIM as VP-digital marketing and media, his new role will also encompass offline media, creative and branding. The move means
Read More...NEWS: the PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition has been posted on My Oracle Support. (Login required.) Major areas of focus for the 8.52 release include but are not limited to: Increasing user productivity Improving system navigation (big area of enhancement requests) Lowering TCO (total cost of ownership) The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has the official statement:
Read More...Alex Handy, writing for the SD Times, has a nice list of the top ways Oracle is being an excellent citizen within the enterprise technology and software development communities. Here’s the high-level list, but you owe it to yourself to see Handy’s rationale behind each. Handing Hudson over to the Eclipse Foundation Pushing OpenJDK as
Read More...My brain is, to some indeterminate percentage, defective. Not just, “Oh, that’s understandable, we all have strange mental echoes and stuff” defective, but really, seriously prone to screwy malfunctions. To the point others will look at me with a raised eyebrow and that faux-overintense stare and try to end their conversation with me as quickly
Read More...“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Read More...Saw this tweet by Thomas Wailgum yesterday: This is pretty big news, as Mott was, for the most part, considered a successful executive. But as Wailgum suggests, perhaps we was too rich for HP CEO Leo Apotheker’s taste? It’s anyone’s guess as to impetus, but he was expensive. From data compiled in 2009 from publicly-filed
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