Business
- Actively Listening to your Kids 7 days ago Pass The Torch
Worried about the impending teenage years? Wondering how to get more than a one-word response from your kids? We can all benefit by brushing up on our active listening skills. For a few tips, please read my Positively Speaking column at 5 Minutes for Mom.
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- Is There Anyone Left At YHOO With A Brain? 1 week ago Opportunity Knocks
2010-03-06T00:00 UTC:
I get a call from someone about Yahoo blocking them from sending e-mail. I say “don’t touch anything. I’ll be right there.
I arrive a few minutes later to see the situation. Yahoo had allowed a fake PayPal message to get through. The user was forwarding it to me with a question: “Do I have [...]
- Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: March 1, 2010 (Episode 4) 2 weeks ago SmartLemming.com
The Smart Lemming Rundown is a shortcut to career management success. I explain how these three recommended business books help you learn the new science of rapid change by thinking a little while changing a lot, overcome the conflict between your rational mind and your emotional mind to accomplish transformational change as a person, worker, manager, or leader, and change your old approach to innovation to become a disruptive innovator.
- Prudential Spirit of Community 3 weeks ago Pass The Torch
This month, my daughter was recognized as the Wisconsin middle school representative for the Prudential Spirit of Community Award. She was chosen from thousands of middle school students who serve in their communities, for her work with Bookworm Wednesday, and her efforts to help others start neighborhood book clubs in their own communities.
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- Key West Express from Marco Island 4 weeks ago Pass The Torch
We had two free tickets and were in for a chilly low-60’s day, so we decided to hop on the Key West Express from Marco Island.
Had it been a warmer day, we could have spent more time outside, which would have been more enjoyable. My husband and son did spend some time [...]
- Oracle-Sun Merger Moves Ahead 1 month ago Opportunity Knocks
After a long review, the EU approved of Oracle’s purchase of Sun. So now it is consumated. Jonathan Schwartz, the Sun CEO, announced his resignation on Twitter.
Oracle has a reputation for being very bottom-line oriented with their businesses. While that is a good thing, in the case of their acquisition of Sun, it caused a [...]
- Denmark Chooses ODF Over OOXML 1 month ago Opportunity Knocks
This is great news (hat tip, Darius Damalakas). Danish government institutions will be using ODF for their documents, not OOXML. Not that there aren’t improvements to be made in ODF-producing and ODF-consuming applications (and the standard itself). Even so, it is gratifying to see user-friendly, constituent-friendly choices being made by government agencies.
I wish that American [...]
- Smart Lemming Diary: More Changes are Coming 1 month ago SmartLemming.com
Have you ever wondered why organizational charts change? Were you ever curious how some people moved up the ladder faster than others?
- Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: February 8, 2010 (Episode 3) 1 month ago SmartLemming.com
This week Lori Grant recommends three business books that help you construct a realistic path to enduring success, defend yourself in office politics or collect political power in a way that?s not selfish, and forge an effective relationship with those above you.
- Positively Speaking ? Writing Contracts 1 month ago Pass The Torch
Will your child soon be experiencing a “rite of passage”? This month’s Positively Speaking column will give you some ideas for writing a contract with him or her, to guide expectations and behavior. Please read my column at 5 Minutes for Mom.
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