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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Who Protects the Internet?
It’s Friday, so allow me to be a bit aloof as I meander around conceptually for a few minutes. We hear constant talk of security in the IT space, from desktops to networks to servers to enterprise applications to how the top-grade SaaS/on-demand companies can possibly harden client datastores to keep the important bits contained
Read More...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...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...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...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...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...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
Read More...Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing
Say what you want about him, but Larry’s never been one to mince words: "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that
Read More...Joshua Greenbaum on Oracle Fusion: Greatly Exceeded Expectations
For anyone still wondering if Oracle has let Fusion go into a black hole and innovation has stalled in the mothership, Joshua Greenbaum emphatically says no: Perhaps the most impressive, due only in part to the huge hype riding behind it, is Fusion Applications. Oracle gave industry analysts a two-hour mind-melting core dump earlier in
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