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How NOT to Live a Life of Mediocrity

>> Thanks to Damu for the comment on my Secrets of Managing Your Advisory Board post which spurred the posting below >> It all starts with your thoughts, which often come from the influences we allow into our life.  Hence my counsel that everyone maintain their own “personal advisory board”. My experience has been that [...]

Top 10 Tips to Land Yourself in Resume Hell

Over the past six months, I’ve reviewed so many resumes from friends and old associates out of work seemingly interested in finding jobs. I use the word “seemingly” because while I know they are sincere about finding work, you wouldn’t know it by reading their resumes.  And, the worst part is that many of these [...]

The end of an era

Open source and new beginnings: it was obviously a very tough decision to make, having spent so much time there. But after 24 years, I’ve made the decision to leave Unisys and spend more time working with non-profits, doing some writing, and advising for startups. ebizQ posted my “Unisys story” on their site. The Open [...]

Open letter to President Obama

Perhaps you heard about the open letter we sent President Obama urging the consideration of open source, where appropriate, in government. With signatures from many of the thought leaders in the open source world, the response was terrific. While such a position will generally attract comments from all extremes, the feedback was very positive. Interesting, [...]

The Ultimate in Customer Service

How can you not be impressed with the way Apple packages their products? It’s obvious they put a lot of effort into the “user experience” all the way through to the opening of the boxes and the packaging of the components. But now I’ve personally experienced an even more remarkable touch. Today Apple offered a [...]

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