I didn’t become a math and science nerd until later in life, which means my early attempts at grokking my multiplication tables were laughable. In third grade, Mr. Turnquist – easily the best teacher I had in all of my elementary school years – began drilling the “times tables” into us, thinking that our third-grade
Read More...AdAge’s Darryl Ohrt articulates a work schedule reality many management teams and HR departments are trying to rationalize: Entrepreneurs, senior executives and serious career employees have known for a long time that the “work day” is all day — and all night. (And if you’re doing what you love, it isn’t work at all.) Meanwhile,
Read More...In some of my previous blog posts, I have emphasized the importance and real-world value of integration for PeopleSoft customers. Integration is an overused word, but nonetheless lots of concepts and power live within it. There is no question that an integrated maintenance management system lowers an organization’s risk and costs. What I haven’t really
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani correctly notes that in the recent ZDNet 100 Technology Experts on Twitter list, there’s not one big-name, mainstream corporate CIO among them. While this is certainly true, three thoughts come to mind. 1. There is a CIO on ZDNet’s list (#50, Scott Lowe), but I don’t think that meets the mainstream corporate CIO
Read More...Seeing how I’m taking my son camping and hunting with his best hunting flashlight for his first time this weekend, I must spare you the long, rambling anecdote about my childhood meddling and cut right to the very best things on the Internet this week. First, a review of the best commencement speech ever given.
Read More...Ed. Note: Gayla Burns is a Sr. Client Executive for MiPro Consulting, serving Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas. Since we all like a good story, let me begin with a rhetorical question: would you say long-standing business relationships are worth more than $0.47 cents? We’ve all heard about the unprecedented financial times we
Read More...PC World’s David Coursey: Google is rolling out new “under-the-hood” search technology, codenamed “Caffeine,” that could change how your company ranks in its search results. For those businesses that live-and-die based on Google-generated traffic, this is potentially a very big deal. In a blog post announcing the project, Google suggested that Caffeine could change search
Read More...First off: wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that Business Intelligence (BI) requirements gathering was such a popular topic. I say this becuase since I wrote my first post on the subject, about 20% of this blog’s daily traffic comes to us via search strings related to BI requirements gathering. Clearly, people understand the importance –
Read More...I loved Bob Sutton’s distillation of Alan Webber’s new book, The Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Yourself. Sutton’s favorite rules: #1. When the going gets tough, the tough relax. #10. A good question beats a good answer (This, by the way, is the reason the Nobel Prize winners often
Read More...Today we’re going to have to depart from the standard Friday anecdote + link fare, simply last night night was long and stupid and has injured my brain to the point where putting coherent sentences together is insanely difficult. I had all sorts of ideas brewing: to tell you about how we used to get
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