July 31st, 2006 | 
One of the companies I work with just fell victim to a recruiting problem that I’ve encountered more times than I want to remember – losing a newly hired employee before their start date. Most often, this seems to happen out of ignorance, sometimes because of lack of bandwidth and once in a while, [...]
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After reading Moore’s latest book, A Dirty Job, one of the funniest books I’ve ever read with a truly inventive story line, my good friend, Brad Feld strongly recommended I read this book. I think Brad said something about it being the greatest book ever written . . . Since he reads about 10,000 [...] Narrator: Armand Schultz - Just OK Genre: Espionage, Thriller Writing: Good Story: Good Time: 4 hours 40 minutes First, I should say that my view of this audio book is severely tainted because it’s abridged. I couldn’t find an unabridged edition. I suppose publishers think that long audio books are too long for the attention span [...] Remember breaking your arm, leg or even your skull when you were young? Probably while doing something that now seems insanely stupid, but was a total blast while your were doing it. The downside wasn’t the fractures – although they sorta sucked - the real problem was that you had to watch all the other [...] A couple of years after we started Viewlogic Systems, we decided to have a motivational speaker come to a sales meeting. Of course, we had no money, so we dropped our requirements from “motivational” to just “interesting.” I don’t remember how we got in touch with the guy who eventually spoke at the meeting [...] In my post titled, Avoid Using Stock Options for Compensation, I discussed why cash is a great tool for recognition, but a weak tool when used for reward, retention and recruiting. To be clear, in my terminology, the difference between reward and recognition is that reward is feedback that pertains to an event, or set of [...] For the 8th year in a row, an American has won the world’s greatest cycling event – the Tour de France. Landis, of the Phonak Team, started today’s time trial 30 seconds behind the leader, Oscar Pereiro. His great performance in the time trial today put him in the Yellow Jersey as the leader [...] One of the most important experiences I’ve ever had as an entrepreneur, or as a business person, for that matter, was when the first company I founded, DataWare Logic, crashed full-speed and completely unexpectedly (to me) into the wall of an empty bank account. I fondly remember the experience not because there was anything [...] American rider, Floyd Landis has made up for his earlier bad day (Stage 16) and is within 30 seconds of the leader, Spanish rider Oscar Pereiro. Landis is an excellent time-trialer and has a reasonable shot at making up the time during tomorrow’s final time trial. A zillion miles and almost three weeks into [...] That’d be me. Yup, I retired after selling my last company, Innoveda (then NASDAQ: INOV) to Mentor Graphics four years ago. I struggled for about a year trying to get my bearings and deciding whether to do something new, but a fractured spine (I’m mostly fine now) put me on the sidelines for a [...] |
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