QUOTE: On Setting High Goals
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” — James Cameron, director of Terminator and Titanic, excerpted from The New Yorker
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The Importance of Integrity
One of the most important things that apply in all aspects of life and business is the quality of integrity. While I continue to learn each day the importance of integrity and how to both teach and share the importance of integrity, nothing can be more rewarding than when a customer defends your integrity. So
Read More...PeopleSoft 9.1 Recruiting Management: An Overview
As any HR pro has learned from the past 18 months, sweeping changes in the economy create changes in recruiting concerns. Chief among these is the misperception that talent is easier to find now because of a saturated, supply-side market. That is correct, but it’s also largely irrelevant when it comes to smart recruiting. Getting
Read More...What Startups Are Really Like
Paul Graham went back and asked the founders of all the startups he’s funded about what surprised them about starting a startup. In other words, what did they wish they knew going in that they do now? The list is intriguing. Here are the biggest: Be careful with cofounders. Startups take over your life. It’s
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/30/09
I have a preternatural fear of skeletons. The origins of this fear go like this: when I was 8, on some nondescript day leading up to Halloween, I was walking past my father’s darkened den, which was situated at the end of a long hallway. Back then, house phones were beige and weighed the same
Read More...Making Money Takes Practice
Jason Fried: Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice. No one expects anyone to be any good at the piano unless they’ve put in lots practice. Same with making money. The more you practice the better you get. Eventually making money is as easy for you as piano is for someone
Read More...CEO Office Hours
Article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune on 37signals’ CEO Office Hours. 37signals is an outstanding example of a company that has very literally embraced the transparency, authenticity and openness other companies claim to want but seldom demonstrate.
Read More...It’s All About the ROI: The Value of Oracle BI Apps for PeopleSoft (Part III)
Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/23/09
Relatively short post today, which means not much in the way of editorial, simply because I’m slammed and have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 11, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort of
Read More...How To Show Your Company’s Personality
From swissmiss comes the following video, a great example of (exercise in?) modern culture-building. Performances like this illustrate a company’s culture and personality more than any website, blog or piece of marketing collateral could ever hope to.
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