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If You Have More Than Three Priorities, You Have No Priorities

If You Have More Than Three Priorities, You Have No Priorities

By Maggie Fox on February 6, 2013

 Some rights reserved by hockadilly One of my favorite sayings (with apologies to Jim Collins, author of From Good to Great) is: “If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities.” I literally use this to run my business life – every year, my team and I agree on three high-level strategic priorities for the […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged education, Focus, planning, priorities, Time management

The Skills Gap; Building a Social Business

The Skills Gap; Building a Social Business

By Michael Fauscette on September 3, 2012

In the recent IDC annual social business survey (June, 2012, N=700) we found that 67% of North American companies were using / implementing social solutions. That’s a huge number and up 25% in only a year. With this rapid increase…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business, education, ESN, SCRM, si, skill gap, skills, socbiz, Social, social business | 3 Responses

Canada’s Next Five Years

Canada’s Next Five Years

By Jevon MacDonald on April 11, 2012

1997-2012: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. 2012-2020: Optimism, Opportunity, Execution. I’ve been bullish for a while now, it’s no secret. It was 5 years ago that I was writing off VC in Canada and explaining how startups needed to step up to create an environment to bring them back. And like a bowl of Sea Monkeys, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, education, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding, venture funding

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

By Bob Warfield on August 3, 2011

Fortune magazine has an article running that Techmemed about some advice Barrack Obama is getting about jobs from Silicon Valley Heavyweights like Kleiner VC John Doerr and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.  They’re all about Education and Immigration Visa Reform as the path to creating jobs, along with plugs along the way for their own ventures.  Here […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Barack Obama, Big Government, economy, education, job creation, job market, Silicon Valley, smb, startups, strategy

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Can You Write a Full Sentence of More Than 140 Characters Anymore?

By Basab Pradhan on July 30, 2011

In the IT Services industry you have to be able to write code. And English. In fact, not being able to write code may be alright. But without English you just can’t function. And yet, it is surprising how little attention is paid to written communication skills. The BPO industry trained thousands of people in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged education, India | 1 Response

TVU Immigration Scam

TVU Immigration Scam

By Basab Pradhan on January 31, 2011

From The Hindu This could become one of the largest immigration frauds to ever hit the U.S. university system With 95% of the students involved said to be of Indian origin, hundreds may face deportation Tri Valley University, here in the Bay Area is involved in what might be the biggest immigration frauds with student […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged education, Immigration, India, San Francisco Bay Area, Sting operation, The Hindu, Tri-Valley

@certification5

@certification5

By Craig Cmehil on May 28, 2010

Today’s show I was joined by Martin Gillet, Michael Koch, Dennis Howlett, Jon Reed and Leonardo De Araujo. These 5 individuals all SAP Mentors, all friends (as well as my friends) and all passionate members of the SAP communities have put together their thoughts, opinions and ideas around the SAP Education and Certification programs. They […]

Posted in Business | Tagged certification, challenge, change, education, Episodes, improvements, sap

How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur

How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur

By Zoli Erdos on April 9, 2010

I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes?  To what?  I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch!  Lowering?  And then it’s still $1,000?  […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BAE, Bay Area Workshop, Business plan, education, Entrepreneurship, meetups, Networking, newtech, rip-off, sfbeta, startups, SVASE, workshop

Yippee! At Least We're Not the Worst!

Yippee! At Least We’re Not the Worst!

By Jason Wood on March 17, 2010

The markets are up. The media is happy. Economists are patting themselves on the back saying the “worst is over.” And certainly in many respects it FEELS that way, doesn’t it? And happily, as an investor, times are better than…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Age of Relativism, American, Drive, education, Initiative, New Jersey, Patriotism, Property tax, Public school, Saint Patrick's Day

Days of Our Lives - On IIT Life, Indian Education, and Geekdom

Days of Our Lives – On IIT Life, Indian Education, and Geekdom

By Anshu Sharma on December 26, 2009

Like to wish all my readers, a very warm happy holidays and merry Christmas. I don’t watch a lot of Bollywood cinema but yesterday I went with friends to go see 3 Idiots – a movie about lives of 3 engineering college students during the four years in s…

Posted in Business | Tagged education, India, Indian Institutes of Technology

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