I’ve recently run into problems with my yahoo account. I’ve owned this particular account since 1997 and have diligently paid yahoo $20 a year for the additional mail features (pop access, more storage, etc) and have always had a good luck with it…until recently. Last week I tried logging into my account to check up [...]
Mass Career Customization
September 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I recently finished reading Mass Career Customization, the newly released book from Deloitte’s Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg (published by Harvard Business Press). The Quick review: Great book with some excellent ideas. The long review (well…not real long): The authors do a very good job of outlining the issues and trends that are pressing employees [...]
Interviewing Tips for Interviewers – Round 2
September 26, 2007 By 1 Comment
Have you ever walked into an interview with a preconceived notion of the job you were interviewing for and after during/after the interview you felt that the job you were told about wasn’t the job you interviewed for? In a previous article titled “Interviewing Tips for Interviewers,” I gave interviewers five tips for interviewing. These [...]
Follow-up to Employee Onboarding
September 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This post is a follow up to my post titled “Employee Onboarding“. Research reported on a recent Management Issues article titled “How to lose half your hires within a year” provides a bit more insight into the Employee Onboarding problem in the US. They report (bolded text is my emphasis): A study by consultancy Novations [...]
Innovation
September 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Articles and books about Innovation are everywhere. Every organization talks about increasing innovation…and they talk…and they talk. Instead of talking about ‘how to innovate’ and trying to implement ‘innovation groups’, perhaps organizations need to just let their people work on topics that interest them. There are many organizations touting their ‘innovation networks’ and ‘processes to [...]
Blog Changes Part 2
September 14, 2007 By 6 Comments
I’ve moved my blog to the new domain (http://ericbrown.com) and have changed the name to “Aligning Technology Strategy People and Projects’…although I’m wondering if that name is too long. The RSS Feed should still work (I use feedburner to manage and they’ve already handled the transition)…if anyone has any trouble with the new blog please [...]
The power of communication
September 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’m always amazed how to hard it is for some people/firms to understand that communication is a major reason for project success or failure. For example, on one of the projects I’m working on now is a content management system implementation. My role is as overall program manager responsible for managing internal and external resources [...]
Where do your values come from?
September 5, 2007 By 4 Comments
What I learned from lifting weights
September 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
As some of you may have read in my previous post titled “I’ve been tagged…8 Random Facts“, I used to lift weights and compete as a powerlifter while in high school. Being a competitive powerlifter (or any competitive athlete) takes a lot of hard work and ‘practice’ although powerlifting doesn’t really require practice like football [...]
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