November 2008
7 posts
Autumn Marathon - Part I
This blog was given its particular name for several reasons. I have promised that I would write about all those reasons over time, but I can now reveal that the common themes are as follows: 1) it takes time, effort, and dedication to accomplish big goals; and 2) with focused effort, great achievements are within reach, but success is never taken for granted and also requires humility, luck and...
Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Sun... →
Sad to read this news about my former employer. The company’s founders created a fantastic culture and left a legacy of great enterprise computing products. Current management has taken value out of the company, but the employees, my former colleagues, are having to pay for their errors with layoffs of 6,000 (out of 30,000) employees.
Letting It All Hang Out
Had an interesting discussion about blogging today with two colleagues at a non-profit organization I advise. We have been talking for months about launching a blog to extend the corporate brand, as a way to learn more about the particular field, and to generally advance the our company’s mission. The idea is that a number of specialists would post articles relevant to the field and our...
Innovation - Part 1
Trying to innovate in my life and career has led me to think a lot about innovation. In this series, will discuss others’ ideas about innovation and will then try to synthesize some thoughts of my own.
Listened to a talk by Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, the innovation consultancy, which was part of the excellent Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Title of...
Four Job-Hunting Lessons from the Campaign for...
Nearly two weeks after election day, the Obama campaign is already starting to fade from memory as the new administration is taking shape and exerting its influence on the many urgent political, economic and military issues. Before the campaign totally slips into the past, I think it is worth dwelling on the lessons that the job hunter can take away from the experience. A presidential election...
Blackberry-Less in a Smartphone World
Somehow found myself walking down Lexington Ave in the rain yesterday with a SIM card in my pocket; just the SIM card, no phone. For the first time in over two years I will be walking around without my email, my full-contacts, without a miniaturized computer. The situation was not intentional: I loved my Blackberry Pearl which I had since 2006 but whose keypad stopped functioning last Sunday. I...