QUOTE: Management Wisdom from Tommy Lasorda
"I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it." — Tommy Lasorda (via Bob Sutton)
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Vinnie Mirchandani: Top 10 Stupid Salespeople Tricks
A fantastic post by Vinnie Merchandani that resonates with everyone here in the office. An excerpt of the Letterman-style top 10 list: 10 ) "We want to be a partner, not a vendor". OK, in that case we want a board seat and some equity…. 9 ) " Just wanted to make sure you saw
Read More...Study: Spending on HR Technology to Hold Steady
Workforce Management: The bottom isn’t falling out of the HR technology market, according to a recent survey from the International Association for Human Resources Information Management professional group. Forty-two percent of the nearly 210 respondents reported that their human resources information technology budgets will remain the same in 2009 as in 2008, the association said
Read More...Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way. It’s the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act
Read More...New Addition
I try to keep internal events at MiPro (mostly) away from the blog unless they’re newsworthy on a broader level, because most internal gyrations have no context to our readership and therefore are a bit ho-hum. As an exception, I’d like to take a moment to announce a new addition to MiPro that we’re very
Read More...Report from Dreamforce
Jeff Kaplan: Despite the economy, election and lingering questions about whether Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is enterprise-ready, this week’s Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference drew nearly ten thousand energnetic attendees and exhibitors to celebrate the power of the ‘cloud’. The event not only dispelled any questions about whether the SaaS movement can withstand today’s economy, it also helped to
Read More...Cut Back vs. Charge Ahead in Today’s Economy: You’d Be Surprised at Who Comes Out Ahead
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful…What is likely is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over. —Warren E. Buffett (discussing when to buy) I was at
Read More...QUOTE: There ain’t no rules around here
There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something. — Thomas Edison (via Jason)
Read More...This Week: MiPro Consulting at HRTech 2008
If you’re going to HRTech 2008 in Chicago this week, come by and see us. Mainly, we just want to hear how your business is doing. There’s a lot going on in our country right now, and we’re interested in how you’re dealing with your HRIT projects and the demands you’re hearing from your management.
Read More...Three Years Running
In the spirit of sharing our business on both general as well as local levels, allow me to take a quick second to announce that MiPro Consulting has won Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For for the third year in a row. We’re doing our share of high-fiving here in the
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