All successful business is based on the effective use of collaboration tools. Because all successful business is based on meaningful collaboration. Hiring strengths and abilities becomes immediately pointless if the individual’s strengths and abilities are not used collaboratively. Or at all! How will the astute leader know the depth of employee potential that lies…
An unforgettable moment was the realization that 20 pound gargantuan phonebooks were a thing of the past. They would be made extinct by the prevalence of the Internet. The introduction of that convenience was a major disruption to the White Pages/Yellow Pages Phonebook industry! What other business technology disruptions does the future hold…
Emerson, that great American poet, said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.” The art of writing and of reading, from either end, could also fit into this aphorism of journey and destination. When you start to read, say a blog, do you hurry to the end? Or enjoy the journey? When I write for…
Character traits are inner qualities that help you rise above the competition. Whether selling a product to a consumer or selling yourself to an employer, it is clearly the intangible of character that accomplishes the job. In his book, Secrets of Question Based Selling,” Thomas A. Freese says that it is a myth that success…
Giving new meaning to this phrase is 3D printing. “Doctors and researchers at the University of Louisville are attempting to make a copy of a sick patient’s heart by using the person’s own fat cells. A 3-D printer would “print” a ‘bioficial” heart. (Associated Press)” The process uses the individuals’ own cells to eliminate the…
You may wonder why anyone would want to edit an Outlook message. Takes enough time to read and respond! By default, Outlook will not let you edit messages sent or received. Which makes sense. Why would you alter someone’s message to you? But there is a good reason. What if the sender is you? If…
Relationships should not be bankrupt at work! Do a Google search on “the new currency” and come up with ideas as the new currency; love as the new currency; relationships as the new currency; and even currency is the new currency! A newly designed $100 bill came out October 8, 2013 with added security…
Mobile Technology Listens to Weather Patterns. Do you? Make the connection between mobile technology and how the hot/cold, wet/dry outside affects your device. While Californians will likely not need to worry about prolonged freezing weather conditions destroying their forgotten-in-the-car mobile, heat is another issue. However, we’re not just talking the mobile technology of…
MS Endangered Species Grows by a Power of 2 threatening computer security. Showing its age by recent announcements of two discontinuations, Microsoft fuels farewell fondness. Not just Windows XP is going away – no longer supported after April 2014. But Windows Server 2003 is also on the list to cease and desist. July 14, 2015,…
Can decisions be triggered by trained impulse, or are they always a process? Marines are not known for being indecisive. In fact, they have a phrase to inhibit bad decisions under the pressure of split second timing. Most of us do not work under the pressure of whizzing bullets with bombs on every side. However,…