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heavy lifting

Been Too Long!

Dear Readers,   I respect you too much to give you any excuses.  I’ve been slacking lately.  Honestly I would probably still be slacking it there wasn’t so much going on.  Many already know that I recently moved over to the digital marketing side for now, but ya never know…I may be back someday.   What a crazy […]

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Sneaky-Salesman

Do as we sell, not as we do.

Now that I have been in the ”real” world for 11 yrs with all of my work centered on technology and business processes, there is one thing I have noticed: in all but one of the companies I have worked for and in hundreds of companies I have helped, the majority of them sell one way and operate […]

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Ttyl brb, printing out my 25 yr old performance appraisal template :(

Ok, so there has been quite a lapse between posts…bad blogger!  But I’ve been busy helping companies wrap up their Q1 goals, celebrated an anniversary, and with a 4 yr old (in three days) and another baby due in 6 weeks…things are busy, to say the least. I recently ran across this neat little info graph on the […]

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bad manager

What is good leadership?

I was doing my daily Flipboard, Twitter, and LinkedIn “whats going on today?” warm-up and came across a very good read. Below is a snippet from it: “You guys are going to be responsible for making these things happen for our company. So you tell us what you see and how we should fix it. We’re not going to […]

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big deal

So You Are Moving To The Cloud…Big Deal!

It’s been over a week since Taleo announced it’s purchase by Oracle and today also marks the approval of SAP’s purchase of SuccessFactors.  Both of these moves have been coined as  ”moves towards the cloud.”  My initial thought on the matter?  So what? What have people been getting? It’s great that companies that use these huge ERP data factories will […]

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confused_man

So…what is this blog exactly?

Good question. And the honest answer is…I am not sure. I have been in the HR technology world for most of my career, I think it is an amazing space with a lot of change. I as a salesperson,professional and all things HR nerd can’t even keep all the change straight. That really is why […]

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Five Cloud/SaaS Contract Negotiation Tips For 2012

  By R “Ray” Wang on January 10, 2012 Business Leaders Often Poorly Prepared For Cloud/SaaS Contract Negotiations Business leaders often take great care in building their Cloud and SaaS strategy, only to have many of the benefits of flexibility and agility hampered by overlooking details in their cloud contracts.   In conversations with over 200 cloud customers in […]

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engaged employee

The Empowered Employee is Coming; Is The World Ready?

Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff  Guest post written by John Hagel, Suketu Gandhi and Giovanni Rodriguez John Hagel is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge.Suketu Gandhi is a principal with Deloitte Consulting. Giovanni Rodriguez is a senior member of the Deloitte social-technology team, and a blogger for Forbes.l In November 1993 – as the nation was just about to learn about a new […]

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cloud computing

Ahead in the Cloud

Originally published at http://www.csc.com/newsroom/ds/75354-ahead_in_the_cloud_the_csc_cloud_usage_index

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cloud-money

Oracle’s Larry Ellison Wants to Buy the Cloud

Image via Wikipedia Since starting Oracle(Nasdaq:ORCL) in 1977, Larry Ellison always has found a way to remain a dominant player in the business software space, be it by creating a tremendous sales force or expanding his company through aggressive acquisitions (by the way, I recently did a piece on what hisFBI background check would look like). But it […]

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