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Some Things Never Change
The economic condition we are globally facing today is generally acknowledged to have been driven by greed. Greed at all levels. Greed of mortgage companies, brokers, real estate agents, appraisers, title companies, real estate speculators, Wall Street investment banks, securities investors, and even naive CDO investors who should have known better. At the same time there was greed in many of the people who purchased far more that they could afford. “Living the Dream” that they had convinced themselves they could afford. Continue reading
Types of Meetings – It Depends on Your Perspective
The marketing guru Seth Godin describes three types of meetings which occur in business – Information, Discussion, and Permission meetings. I found this very interesting and somewhat of a parallel universe.
In the business world that I am familiar with, management of Information Technology, I am used to four primary types of meetings, and a different set than Seth describes. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process, Technology
Tagged efficiency, meeting, productivity, protocol, workforce dynamics
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Memories
Recently, Seth Godin made a great point in Personal Branding in the Age of Google that while checking into applicants for a babysitting position he “Googled” each applicant and learned a lot about them through posts they had made on Facebook and other social sites. [A good read on this is Oh, What a Tangled Web Print We Leave, by Brett Popplewell] This is a great example of how people’s behaviors on-line mirror their off line identities. At least for those people that use their own identities on-line. Continue reading
