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Category: Management
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Mentoring Tips: necessarily job skills not related to your job
The person that is hiring you, make the difficult decision of who the best candidate is for the job based not just on the specific job requirements but also on basic “soft skills”, like communication and teamwork.
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Organizational Leaders need to adopt digital at the core
Organizations need to adapt their digital business as part of their core business strategies, who would a leader be able to do this, how would they be able to understand that this is part of the evolution of their organization. Organizational leaders need to become digital tech savvy, and start transforming their organization, if not…
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The cycling benefit of work balance
I have done many long-distance cycle trips in Europe and North America, during the trips I had plenty of time to think about life in general and whatever comes up during a ride, lately, I been thinking about work balance and what cycling can teach.
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Stop bullshitting yourself about your technical knowledge
In my career, I have come across many types of people that claim to have various degrees of technical skills, the ones that I have a hard time with are the technical unskilled people that suffer from illusory superiority.
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Your Colleagues Are Lying to You
How many people have you spoken with today? Chances are that most of them lied to you – and that they did it more than once. It’s a hard fact to accept, but even your closest friends and coworkers lie to you regularly.
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Successful IT projects are characterized by less bureaucracy
Browsing the latest technology news today, I came across the article IT projects need less complexity not more governance. I really agree with the findings that are presented in the article – I have come to a similar conclusion after spending decades in the software industry that less bureaucracy and less complexity are the ingredients for a…
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Emotional Intelligence in exceptional employees
A recent international study surveyed more than 500 business leaders and asked them what sets great employees apart. The researchers wanted to know why some people are more successful than others at work, and the answers were surprising; leaders chose “personality” as the leading reason.
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What motivates people to work
What motivates people to work, the research teams at Culture Works surveyed more than 850,000 people to learn what makes people the most motivated and engaged in their careers.
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Ever thought of having a staging environment for your WordPress site
Did you ever thought of having a staging environment for your WordPress site, you have to ask yourself how often do you add new plugins, update current plugins and themes. Have you ever had a problem with your site after adding or upgrading, if so you fall into the category that should consider setting up…
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How to Investigate Companies
Recently I was on an Open Data conference in Amsterdam, I meet people from OpenCorporates, they have developed a toolkit that they call Octopus. This toolkit is a series of research tools on how to investigate companies and other types of organizations.