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Over the years, I have periodically hosted dinners with a handful of people — most of whom I knew, a few I didn’t — as a way of bringing smart people together for good conversation. I have also attended countless small group dinners, often at conferences. These events have been almost uniformly enjoyable, often productive, [...]
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So there’s been quite a buzz recently about Philadelphia’s pursuit of bloggers in an effort to collect a “$300 tax.” Like most controversies surrounding social media, there’s some truth but plenty of hyperbole. From the headlines, one might get the impression that the city has imposed a new tax on bloggers. Not true. One might [...]
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Today, I came across a post from popular new media marketing blogger and entrepreneur Chris Brogan titled “Profit from ‘Pick Your Brain’ Requests.” As I read the headline, I thought to myself: “Right on! I love it when people pick my brain because it often gives me great ideas, too!” Unfortunately, that’s not what Brogan’s [...]
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Who among us has not been intrigued by what goes on behind closed doors at our office? Ever wondered what your boss was really thinking? Curious about the dynamics of your organization’s board and ownership? Or perhaps speculated about compensation questions?
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In my early years of engagement with technology in the 1980’s, there were quite a few platforms available. A wide variety of operating systems and hardware providers battled for prominence in the marketplace. If you’re of a certain age, you may smile or cringe as you think back to names like Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, TRS-80, Tandy 1000, IBM PC Jr., and Amiga. And that’s just a few of the more consumer-friendly offerings in the marketplace!
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I do my fair share of speaking, and I attend conferences regularly. After having done both over the past month, I have some observations that hopefully may help other speakers as well as those who recruit people to speak at events.
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Most of the time I read recently released books, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good books out there that were published more than a few months ago. I’m not talking the “classics” — which honestly don’t generally appeal to me all that much (with apologies to my old English teachers). There are books from [...]
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When I began to read Jason Fried and David Hansson’s Rework, my first impression was: here we go again. As the book opened up, it had a lot of the tired old rants that reminded me of the part of 37 Signals I like least, as well as some of the same nonsense that Tim [...]
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The Boston Globe carried a story in its business section today that really resonated with me: “No-Move Moves.” Katie Johnston Chase writes about several senior corporate executives who work at companies hundreds or thousands of miles away from their home and family. While I’m not the CEO of a company with tens of thousands of [...]
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Don’t Monitor Employee Behavior Online*
by Chip Griffin on March 27, 2010
Organizations should not proactively monitor what their employees are doing online. There’s an asterisk we’ll get to in a moment, but tracking social networking behavior, what sites workers visit, the content of emails, and other electronic behavior should not be on the list of workplace activities. Now let me be clear: I believe employers have [...]
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