Category Archives: work
More career advice to be taken or left from The Poulet
Following up on the day-before-yesterday’s post, m,poulet reiterated his rules to me by email today so that I wouldn’t have beer on the brain when trying to recall them. Here they are in all their ovine glory 🙂 1/ Don’t … Continue reading
Changing the rules
I used to have three basic rules for success that I mentioned in passing last year: the squeaky wheel gets the grease, quality before quantity, and make yourself indispensable. After a beer-soaked discussion last night with m.poulet, I feel inclined … Continue reading
Matricial Organization Survival Guide
I got to thinking about how one survives in matricial organizations where the lines of power are unclear and crisscrossed and thought I’d jot down some thoughts. Since one isn’t really sure who is pulling the strings and the decision-making … Continue reading
News from Orlando: Behind the scenes
Dear reader, I have once again hopelessly neglected you for nearly a week. I have a good excuse: giant sales conference in Orlando all week. That entails either loads of meetings and presentations or too much beer (or both?). Yet, … Continue reading
Ups and downs of a marketing guy and Dexter S06E11
Dear reader, I have woefully neglected you this week and for that I apologize. It has been a week frought with change and opportunity work-wise. My organization is being completely re-shuffled and everyone is understandably is complete incertitude. I had … Continue reading
More reflections on the cloud
Thanks to all who liked my post last night. In particular, one of my friends couldn’t post his comments for some reason so I’ll reproduce the dialog here: Disclosure: This particular friend works for one of my competitors thus the caginess … Continue reading
Did Everything Really Change?
There was a sort of minor sea change in the PLM world Tuesday as Autodesk finally entered the fray. Just about five years after questioning the value of PLM, CEO Carl Bass is now convinced that his PLM on the … Continue reading
The continuing PowerPoint Saga
Feeling a tad stressed because I have a high-level PowerPoint presentation that I am delivering next week as well as a deep dive the next day. And naturally, I am totally unprepared after last week’s Vegas trip. Trying to catch … Continue reading
Measuring my BKT (Beer Karaoke Threshold)
Yes, I think there must be a scientific method for determining at which point I go from casual, sardonic observer of karaoke with colleagues to singing and air-guitar’ing maniac. Perhaps it is around 5 or 6 beers. I am fairly … Continue reading
Waiting for Inspiration to hit…and 5 Tips for a successful pitch
Has this ever happened to you when you had a, let’s just say, creative, assignment to fulfill with a tight deadline and you draw blanks for days leading up to the final day or so? I had a presentation to … Continue reading
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