I’m a huge fan of Ruby on Rails because of how fast it enables techies to get a new project out the door and into the hands of users. For non-programmers Ruby on Rails is a development framework brought to you by 37Signals that powers some of your favorite sites, like Basecamp, Twitter, LinkedIn and [...]
From the week of October 26
LA Selects Google Email
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to outsource its email system to Google. It will be moving 30,000 city employees to Google’s so-called cloud over the coming year. Contract value is $7.25 million. Read more at the LA Times.
Google Testing Social Search
Google Social Search [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about workplace myths, going back to school, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The Prodigal Executive
Competency: coaching
Who benefits: executive coaches, senior managers and executives
Consultant Usage: executive coaching
What’s it about? Let me begin with a disclaimer. The author, Bruce Heller, is a good friend. Bruce is an executive coach. Been one for 15 years. I have to share an image with you. He is [...]
When Henry Heinz got started, people didn’t buy horseradish or relish or pickles or other preserved foods in stores. They made them at home. And they were skeptical about any preserved food made anywhere else.
There was good reason for that distrust. Much commercial preserved food was awful. Some was even poisonous.
That gave Henry Heinz two [...]
“I feel my best when I’m happy.”
Winona Ryder
Emotions do indeed play a role in productivity, morale of talent and customer service.
Any guess what medical condition or health risk is the most costly to employers?
If you guessed stress, smoking, obesity, inactivity or diabetes you are way off the mark. In fact, the most costly is depression1.
Depression [...]
From the week of October 19
Google drops Page Rank.
Google has quietly removed page rank from its Webmaster Tool – a strong message to webmasters and site owners that other factors are much more important to a site’s search engine rankings. Unfortunately, page rank still appears on the Google Toolbar which means the uninformed are likely [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about saving a stalled job search, how [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: How to Manage Virtual Teams
Competency: team development
Who benefits: senior managers, team leaders, project managers
Consultant Usage: important background material for team building consultants
What’s it about? Sloan Management Review (MIT) has an excellent article in its Summer 2009 issue regarding the management of virtual teams. (Registration and/or purchase required.)
We are talking here [...]
To win over sophisticated, high tech buyers, we’re told we need to appeal to their rational side, using logic and value to sell, but while this strategy may appear to work in the general sense, there’s some interesting neural research that might make you re-think your marketing approach, especially when marketing to prospects that are [...]