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Bringing order to a chaotic work day

Mar 8, 2010 5:33pm

My usual day started with early morning meetings, catching up on email, looking up my memory for the to-do tasks and following up with my team by writing more emails, participating in meetings, and resulting in more emails. As you can imagine, it was pretty hectic, a reactive work style and of...

The March 7th Leadership Development Carnival is up!

Mar 7, 2010 10:50pm

Go check out the new March 7th Leadership Development Carnival. Dan McCarthy has gathered together over 40 top posts, putting them in an Academy Award categories format. Dan introduces each submission with a brief description to help you decide if you want to read it. Some notable posts include:...

Lofty goals

Mar 5, 2010 1:43pm

I love my Tivo. I think it’s the best invention of it’s decade and a close second to the remote control, as being the most useful invention of my lifetime. I love it not so much for it’s technology, but for it’s simplicity. The idea was so simple, all the technical pieces...

Congratulations Amy on an outstanding TEDTalk

Mar 3, 2010 6:33pm

While I didn’t get to go to the talk I did get to hear people raving to Amy about how interesting it was (and ask a lot of questions about Paul!). Her photo was in regular rotation during the breaks at TEDActive. So now, not only can she forever say that...

Carnival of HR – The Hangover Edition

Mar 3, 2010 9:05am

Here it is! Have you ever had that moment in an organization where you or someone stops and says: “Wait a minute, how did we get into this spot?” “Doesn’t [Joe/Sally] know how that works? Has anyone seen them?” “Why are we doing things this way?” “Didn’t we just experience this very same thing...

Pay for Performance is Dead … almost

Mar 2, 2010 3:06pm

No, this is not an ironic critique of current pay budgets or of corporate performance, in general, in the current economy. Rather, I am seeing several signals suggesting that the pay for performance model that we’ve touted in the past might need a serious makeover. First, there’s the research in behavioral...

Self Appraisals in the first grade

Feb 26, 2010 2:45pm

Several people I work with attended an interesting training here at Oracle. It was a course designed to give you tips on how to do presentations to executives. I heard some key themes included: being on message, brief, in control, prepared, etc. Most importantly, you should make sure you talk about...

Ladies please stop [inappropriately] apologizing

Feb 26, 2010 10:16am

As a mother of girls I’m highly sensative to female behaviors — those that I want my girls to exhibit and those I’d like them to avoid. My rant today is about the inappropriate apology. I am sure that there are men who also have this annoying habit, but...

New blogger on the scene

Feb 24, 2010 2:05pm

I’m happy to share a new blog with my TalentedApps and DFoF friends. My girlfriend Heather has started a fashion blog (I must say this is probably more for the girls…). As has been well reported, in my world it takes a village and Fashion is one of the first areas that...

The March 3rd Carnival of HR? – When’s That?

Feb 24, 2010 10:01am

That’s right! The March 3rd Carnival of HR is fast approaching. No sooner have you just got off the train for the special February 24th Undercover Boss Carnival of HR, when it’s time to hop on this one! March is known for many things: it comes in like a lion, yet...