How to Quit Procrastinating
From news.com.au Business. But do I have to start now?
From news.com.au Business. But do I have to start now?
This is the second part of the video I embedded from YouTube yesterday. While I am interested in the part about IT as it hits close to home, even for someone on the “old-ward” slide from full time IT, I’m even more interested in the policies and pressures on business that tend to make consolidation…
TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article. I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to have extra backups of certain critical files. I do this because quite frequently I want…
I’ve discovered that going full tilt while I’m under the weather tends to increase rather than decrease my lost time, so here I am in my living room easy chair, hoping what I think is a minor illness will go away quickly. Problem is, I can’t shut off my brain, so enter my Samsung Galaxy…
… or something. The actual headline was How Narcissistic Leaders Squash Collaboration. My question is this: Did we need a study to tell us this? The results are worth reading, and if you’re choosing someone for a leadership role, they’re worth heeding. Despite all of this, overconfident leaders are also often the people who get…
There are a number of things I like about the Obama administration, largely in foreign policy and to a lesser extent in terms of civil liberties. But there is one area where I disapprove totally. I think a company that fails should be permitted to fail. The only cushion provided should be the bankruptcy laws,…
From a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise, according to The Consumerist. I bring this up to point out that a minimum level of common sense is required for good customer service. If you think you have enough rules to cover it, think again. Also see here and here on customer service. (HT: Pursuing Holiness.)