Archive for the 'work' Category

The Andreesen Files

June 12th, 2007

Marc Andreesen has a blog now. Read it why dontcha! He started out a little slow but hit his stride in no time at all. Yes, I’m complimenting the arguable father of the modern web. So that means I’d like to comment on several of his posts. In one [...]

The Power of “Nice”

June 1st, 2007

In the grand tradition of deep-blog-linking, I’m going to point to a post on the Reforming Project Management blog, which discusses in brief the policy of Four Seasons Hotels for hiring personnel… and some of their “keys” to a successful operation.
It struck me mainly because a lot of the focus was on how they choose [...]

Work-Life Balance

May 30th, 2007

Jason “Not Jessica” Alba, of the JibberJobber Blog, had a post on “Work-Life Balance For Health And Sanity”. It’s a pretty standard missive on the wisdom of not working and only working.
I have to be frank, but I’ve always found the “no vacation” thing curious. Perhaps I find it as curious as the [...]

The Black Art: Hiring/Being Hired

May 29th, 2007

It always helps to see what’s happening on the other side as I push forward with my own job search. An interesting article came to my attention called No Hire is Better Than a Bad Hire.
The article has two parts at the time of this posting, with a third coming. The gist of [...]

Customer Support Is Good For The Bottom-Line? Wow!

May 19th, 2007

Nick Dynice has a blog entry on the financial benefits of good customer service. (Startling, I know, to discover that there are benefits.) As he states, this is one of the most obvious of all things in business; at least, from a standard, customer-facing standpoint.
The issue is that from a finance standpoint customer [...]

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