Tony Schwartz, writing for Harvard Business Review, gives three key behaviors to keep an eye on as you seek to give ‘feedback’ to someone else. 1. The first mistake we often make is giving feedback when we are feeling that our own value is at risk. That’s a recipe for disaster, and it happens far
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Wins Metro Detroit’s ‘101 Best & Brightest’ for the 6th Consecutive Year by Lenore S. Litwin on August 29, 2011 Bear with me for a self-congratulatory moment? I was so proud to receive the announcement last week that MIPRO has once again been named one of ‘Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best &
Read More...In case of death, do you know who gets your retirement account? Before answering, think about it. Do you really know? In many cases, this amounts to a person’s life savings. It’s worth knowing. As it turns out, the rules are more confusing that you might think. Carolyn Geer, writing for the WSJ, provides one
Read More...Finally, the shoe we all knew would drop dropped when Adobe announced it will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices. Instead, Adobe says it will focus on HTML5. Smart move, and one in which everyone wins. A few days later, RIM announced that it will continue to support Flash via its own implementations for its
Read More...From Gazelle.com, the popular service that offers cash for your old electronics as you prepare to upgrade: Earlier this month, the trade-in of BlackBerry devices climbed, but in the past week, the number of these trades skyrocketed by 80%. This spike coincided with the launch of the iPhone 4S, says Gazelle Chief Gadget Officer Anthony
Read More...From the In Case You Haven’t Heard Dept.: PeopleTools 8.52 is now generally available. Here’s the official Oracle announcement, just over a week ago on Oct. 28: PeopleTools 8.52 is important to PeopleSoft customers because it provides significant end-user value and demonstrates Oracle’s ongoing commitment to the PeopleSoft product family. The PeopleTools features and capabilities
Read More...Two days ago, Oracle acquired RightNow for $1.5B, and many analysts immediately said the purchase was, for all intents and purposes, missiles aimed at Salesforce.com. But how? What does this mean? How to decipher this? What does the acquisition do for Oracle? Won’t Oracle’s ‘Public Cloud’ be comprised of technologies already in Oracle’s stack? Not exactly. According
Read More...If you’re an HR executive or involved in any way with shaping your organization’s HR direction, you should seriously consider attending Oracle’s upcoming HR executive roundtable. It’s a special event that will touch on all aspects of HR challenges (such as how HR can help build the corporate brand and measuring HR’s impact on business
Read More...So the news is this: Oracle bought Endeca, a search and data management company. Smart move. Enterprise search has long been lacking, especially when it comes to searching unstructured data, and now Oracle will have a very compelling differentiator for its business intelligence and analytics platforms. Here’s TechCrunch on the deal: Endeca’s core technology enables
Read More...Benjamin Pimentel, reporting for MarketWatch: Catz, who is also Oracle’s chief financial officer, said the company still believes a 20% earnings per share growth is achievable, even as the company expands. “We are hiring aggressively,” she said. Oracle saw a 14% growth in adjusted earnings per share in its last quarter. I’ve always thought Oracle’s
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