Top 10 Outsourcing Trends by Small Businesses in 2009 by Amit Mullerpattan on Small Business Trends

CMOs Don’t Get Customer Service??? Yikes! by Ted Mininni on Marketing Prof’s Daily Fix

Software Estimating by Glen Alleman on Herding Cats

Great leadership is about conversation by George Ambler on The Practice of Leadership

The big and small of IT by Andrew McAfee

It is a paycheck – and it is killing us by Scot Herrick on Cube Rules

Prepare Your People for the Upturn by John Baldoni on HarvardBusiness.org

Familiarity, trust, and the path in between by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding

The Power of Old Ideas by Rosabeth Moss Kanter on HarvardBusiness.org

How IT can track accountability from the get-go by Jessica Lipnack on Endless Knot

Multitasking is the fastest way to mediocrity by Jason on Signal vs Noise

Cloud Computing Is a Tool, Not a Strategy by Stacey Higginbotham on GigaOm

Failure To Launch (Your Product) by Scott Selhorst on Tyner Blain

Scot and his wife were both laid off at Washington Mutual last week and Scot has started a series on the subject with some very interesting insights into the mindset of someone going through this journey. Instead of being angry (at least in a visible way) Scot and his wife are looking at this problem as a new challenge to overcome.

I don’t expect the journey to be a long one as I expect Scot and his wife to find jobs quickly but I’ll be following along closely and hope everyone else will too.

[tags] Scot Herrick, Cube Rules [/tags]