A few Friday’s ago I spoke candidly about what I thought about Casual Fridays, and the message was pretty clear: The dress for your company should be driven by your culture, and your culture should be aligned with your business. When companies recruit and hire good, smart candidates that are a fit for their culture [...]
There is one absolutely indisputable fact about social media – It brings the #GEEK out. Early adopters, for the most part, will try anything – and trust me, it’s a slippery slope. One day you are setting up a fancy RSS Reader and the next thing you know….. FARMVILLE! Nothing like missing out on actual [...]
Imagine your candidates showing up to their interview totally unprepared – not at the top of their game – expecting you to look past the wrinkled clothes, poor resumes, and bad attitudes and hire them anyway. It isn’t the first impression you hope for when you greet the candidate in the lobby. First impressions matter [...]
I love the concept of this video – taking the best parts of the 25 hottest pop songs from 2009 and create an audio and video mashup that provides a collective output that no single song can by itself offer the listener. I’m a proponent of taking a similar approach to your personal development. If [...]
It was 2004, in a critical stretch of a major project, and the project team was spending the weekend holed up in a conference room in intense design sessions. The team was staring at magnified circuit boards, a small but immensely critical piece of a complex radar system and there was a serious problem: the [...]
As I was debating over what to write about, my buddy Anthony suggested I blog about the whole NBC situation. Their Jay Leno experiment had ratings dropping faster than 09′ stock prices. So NBC is reshuffling again, with all of their hopes tied to a guy with a huge chin and one funny skit - [...]
My first job out of the Air Force Academy was simple: Manage the ‘task list’ of action items and have them ready for the Colonel’s stand-up staff meeting at 7 AM. The expectations were clear – Show up on time with a status for every task, and run through brick walls if needed to chase [...]