Tim Ferriss, as part of his book club featuring books that dramatically impacted his life, said Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning is one of the books hedge fund managers have on their bedside tables. After reading it, I can see why. Like Ferris, this book will go down as one of the best self-improvement
Read More...The cliché goes, ‘correlation does not equal causation.’ This means, of course, that just because Thing A correlates to Thing B, it does not mean Thing A caused Thing B. Tyler Vigen over at Spurious Correlations illustrates this in hilarious fashion. Here’s an example: Click to enlarge. This is fantastic on so many levels. Be sure
Read More...Brand new video posted by PSFTOracle about the new Asset Management WorkCenter. This is built on PeopleSoft Update Manager Image 4, which is a fantastic piece of technology. The PeopleSoft Asset Management 9.2 WorkCenter streamlines your business processes by providing your Asset Clerks and Asset Accountants a centralized workspace that helps increase visibility and control
Read More...One of the most fascinating articles I have come across in months is The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols. It’s a great piece, and you should definitely take time to read it. Its basic gist is this: we live in an age where everyone has a publishing/broadcasting platform for their opinion (Twitter, Facebook, commenting
Read More...Earlier this week, I shared a post on our Facebook page about an article called The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact. It’s a great piece, and you should read it. This made me think about some of the best advice I’ve ever been given. The kind of advice that makes you go, “Huh,
Read More...Honestly, I save pages all the time to Pinboard (if you collect pages/links for future reference, let me be the first to say this is worth a one-time fee of $10.37), and it’s been quite some time since I’ve emptied my queue. I’ve scoured the entire internet to bring these to you, which is no small
Read More...We’ve posted a lot about PeopleTools, but we still get questions about its high-level value to organizations as well as PeopleTools’ future direction. Here we have Marc Weintraub (PeopleSoft Product Strategy) interviewing Jeff Robbins (Sr. Director, PeopleSoft Development) about everything PeopleTools entails, and it’s great. Worth your time if you use or are expanding your
Read More...So much gets talked about today regarding “relationships” and “relationship building” when it comes down to working with your customers and accounts and project teams. It doesn’t matter if you are in sales, customer service, or managing a large marketing project, building a relationship with individuals takes time, work and effort. You have to have
Read More...In our daily discussions, we often get asked about what’s the best way to get the most dashboard functionality out of PeopleSoft. Dashboards make organizations more efficient, allow the right analytics to be displayed in the right place, and help data turn into actionable information. Plus, they’re far more engaging for the end user. The
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