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Is Your Company an Oak or a Dandelion?

April 27, 2010
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I was going to write some more website spring cleaning tips for 2010 but got sidetracked while thinking about the variety of plant life in my backyard. I started thinking about trees, which I have a lot of, and weeds, which I have even more of. You didn’t know I was into gardening, did you? [...]

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Work Life Choices

March 9, 2010

“There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” – Jack Welch (WSJ)

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My (and Your) Super Bowl Picks

February 2, 2010

How do you pick your Super Bowl “Big Game” favorites*? I’m putting my money on the New Orleans Saints. No, not because I’m an NFC fan or because their win would somehow make me feel better about their thrashing my Atlanta Falcons repeatedly, but because we, the people, have spoken. According to Google Insights for [...]

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FORTUNE on Google/Gov’t “Love Story”

October 27, 2009

I’m glad I’m not the only one that has some questions about the growing relationship between Google and the government. This week’s FORTUNE magazine’s cover story is titled “Obama & Google (a love story)“. Again, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing to have one of the world’s smartest technology companies helping the government [...]

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What’s Wrong with a Googlified Government?

September 16, 2009

I am all for smaller, leaner, more efficient government. But don’t classify me as a right-winger just yet. I just don’t like wasteful spending and excess “bloat”, especially when tax dollars are stretched tighter than ever before. So you could assume that I would be in favor of Google’s recent announcement of “Google for the [...]

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