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- SWOT: The #1 Secret to "Serious" Career Growth
- By John McKee, The Business Success CoachThe recent announcements from General Motors and Ford Motor Company haveunderscored that good job performance, alone, does not ensure professionalgrowth or success over the long-term. These developments, when viewed in conjunction with thecontinuing trend of corporate outsourcing and offshoring,illustrate that business people are a...
- Tags: Self-SWOT, Self-SWOT analysis, oneÂ, career, SWOT analysis, workplace
- Technical articles 2006-09-19
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- Protecting the Integrity of your Brand
- This whitepaper identifies the numerous threats that hackers, phishers and others can inflict on name brands and product reputation. The report cites numerous statistics describing the severity of attacks waged on popular brands such as Tommy Hilfilger, Coca-Cola and McDonald's. This report also elaborates on the importance of...
- Tags: brand, phishing
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- Does your Desktop Support department offer flex time?
- The notion of the typical 8-to-5, forty-hour work week seems to have gone by the wayside with most Desktop Support departments. This seems to be the case regardless of whether the support is provided in-house or is outsourced. Personally speaking, my hours don't always fall into the 8-to-5 range, but...
- Tags: Hour, Flex-time, Desktops, Hardware, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Time for Linux to change?
- Red Herring (mediacompany covering innovation, technology and finance) recently carried a fascinatinginterview of Eric Raymond—self confessed gun nut, freedom fighter and of coursechampion of opensource. The basic thought beingpushed is a simple one—if Linux is to stand any chance of dominating the nextOS war then it must change and...
- Tags: 64Bit, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-08-27
- New Year, Same Work
- Well here it is; a new year and a new challenge. That's the usual line but a change of calendar doesn't necessarily mean an automatic change in your life. You have to make changes happen. The main reason for New Year resolutions...
- Tags: Job, Life, Holiday, Change, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jeff Dray
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- 3 paths to career self-sabotage
- Employee turnover hurts not only those receiving their "walking papers," but employers as well. It's a costly, though avoidable, problem. At my coaching practice, BusinessSuccessCoach.net, I often see the same detrimental effects that some actions repeatedly have on different individuals. If you want to have a long and...
- Tags: Financial, Career, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Is your lack of "Executive Presence" holding you back?
- Most people want leaders who look like leaders and act like leaders. If you're an executive who is choosing a new department head, a company board of directors appointing a new CEO, or simply a voter deciding who should lead the country for the next four years,...
- Tags: Executive Presence, Leadership, Management, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- What bargains did you find at CompUSA?
- I figure that most of us who write code for a living are probably gadget geeks at heart, so I assume that many of you went to your local CompUSA during its closing days. Sunday was the final sale at the two stores here in the Nashville area....
- Tags: Retail Price, Recorder, CompUSA Inc., Games, Consumer Electronics, DVD, Taxes, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Financial Planning, Finance, Rex Baldazo
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- How's your career?
- I'm frequently asked for tips and tactics which people can use to be certain they are making the most of their career. Obviously there are many lists and books out there on the subject. And based on those, it seems there are many "experts" who can provide the...
- Tags: Preparedness, Personal Development, Performance Metrics, Management Style, Long Term Goals, Leadership, HR, Career Path, Career, Business Intelligence, Accountability
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- The flawed process of getting a job offer
- At least three times in my career I have gone through the long interview process for a tech job, got an offer and then turned it down. Each case would have been a step up in either income or responsibility. One was turned down because it required a move of about 150...
- Tags: Tim Malone, Offer, Job, Recruitment & Selection, IT manager, Problem, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Supporting users' e-mail and hosting your own e-mail server: pros and cons
- My e-mail provider recently had to shut down their servers so they could install some major upgrades to both their hardware and software. It was supposed to be a three-hour task, one they planned to perform between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on Monday morning. By noon...
- Tags: Server, E-mail Server, E-mail, Online Communications, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Ensure security best practice when deploying new technologies
- By Ruby BayanTopnotch companies wield cutting-edge technology to stay aheadof the pack. But with the breakneck speed at which technologies roll out, an enterprise'ssupposedly robust security architecture could quickly become ill prepared for thenew milieu. At the same time, technologies purportedly ready for deployment couldbe ushering in new vulnerabilities and...
- Tags: Diana Kelley, Guest Contributor, security, standards
- Technical articles 2004-08-09
- Having a good outside support team behind your support efforts
- We all know the importance of having good people on your support staff, but the support team outside the company is just as important – that is, vendors and suppliers, as well as consultants if you use them. Vendor and supplier loyalty can be just as important as being loyal...
- Tags: Team, Brand, Supplier, Channel Management, Branding, Marketing, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Choosing iSCSI over fibre channel: Deciding factors
- For the last 10 months, I've worked as the IT Director for Elmira College,a small liberal-arts college located in Elmira, NY, in the midst of the Finger Lakes.One of the areas that immediately caught my eye was the storage situation inour data center. With 35 servers, we have no central...
- Tags: storage, iSCSI, Scott Lowe MCSE, fibre channel, SAN
- Technical articles 2005-03-15
- Blurring the business line -- buying and selling on the Internet
- Eric Thompson of Green Bay, Wisconsin is a family man. He has a wife and three young children. He is also an entrepreneur. A young man in his thirties, he runs a successful online and offline business. He sells guns. Eric is the...
- Tags: Weapon, Accessory, Eric, Retail, Internet, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- You are your job. (And vice versa.) Sorry.
- I know a few things for certain. One of them - after 30 or so years as a leadership coach and business executive - is that we cannot "compartmentalize" our lives. This is not widely accepted. Time and again, I run into managers who...
- Tags: Job, Life, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- [CommuniAsia 2007] Crecendo's Maestro: One box, a million Web clients
- Further to my trip down to CommunicAsia 2007, this is the first of several reports I am working on pertaining to products that caught my attention. I have learned much, and I certainly hope you will be able to gain something from my write-ups as well. ...
- Tags: Web Server, Web, Crecendo, Web Servers, Channel Management, ASICs, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Communication, Communication, Communication.
- I am in dire peril of acquiring a hobby-horse about this. Most of the problems with corporate life can be resolved by the liberal application of at least one of the words used in the title of this posting. Communication consists of several components. ...
- Tags: Communication, Printers, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jeff Dray
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Traditional IT metrics fail in tough budget times
- I was in a meeting with a large group of CIOs the other day and the buzz in the room centered around budgets cuts. The words bunker mentality, hunker down and no new projects swirled about, seemingly on everyone's tongue – and I can't blame them. Things are...
- Tags: Metrics, Information Technology, RIM BlackBerry, Strategy, Management, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Wireless technology played a big role in my surgery
- A few weeks ago I went through an interesting—I can say that now—series of health-related events. Bottom line, I had three blocked coronary arteries and needed bypass surgery. Now in the mending and self-reflecting stage, I am realizing that wireless technology played a very significant part in my getting through...
- Tags: Phone, Wireless Technology, EKG Sensor, Badge, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
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