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Passion will send you to the moon
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Professionals undervalue passion. Passion is everything. If you genuinely care, pour your heart into your work, and strive for delivering excellent results out of genuine intrinsic motivation, you will be…

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Recipe for Successful Business Transitions
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Business changes. It is inevitable that an organization will need to navigate several transitions each year. Some will be critical to success, others will optimize performance, and still others will…

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Cloud Collapse? Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water…
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Today’s EC2 outage took the IT sector and news media by storm. Many people have taken the opportunity to bash the concept of the public cloud and others outsourcing in…

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Mobile is intersecting with Big Data
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Given that portable devices have largely become an extension of the human person, they are rapidly collecting, consuming, and leveraging increasingly complex and rapidly growing sets of data. Not only…

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Collaboration is not consensus
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Collaboration is a powerful art. Those who collaborate effectively deliver higher quality and more creative results. High-performing teams undoubtedly leverage collaboration as fuel for their rocket ship. What is the…

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Mobile First & The Product Mindset
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With the rise of portable computing devices, Google announced about a year ago that it was pursuing a new product development mindset – one they described as “Mobile First.” The…

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The future of tablets and other personal devices in the enterprise
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As 2011 began, Gartner published their traditional set of annual predictions. Two of them caught my eye. First, they predict that by 2014, 90% of organizations will “support corporate applications…

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Beyond time management: Important, urgent, and the people you interact with
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Many people subscribe to the Stephen Covey approach to time management. Covey proposes that you use a quadrant system – the axes being important/not important and urgent/not urgent – in…

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Continuing to refine my role
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About three months ago I blogged about my evolution as CEO of Three Pillar. I cataloged the growth that is probably fairly typical for an entrepreneur and outlined four steps…

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Don’t forget the fun
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When people think about keeping employees happy, most focus on financial compensation – salary, benefits, and perhaps a bonus here or there. Astute managers, HR personnel, and others who are…

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