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Tribal Leadership

I have been reading Tribal Leadership on the iPad, and it is an awesome book. It describes so many things I have seen in my 18 year career. You do not need to be fired to have experienced the blog post below. It is a good read because so many companies treat their employees badly. I recommend checking out this book at the Tribal Leadership website. Reposted from http://www.triballeadership.net/blog Worst Five Ways to Fire Someone If you have never been fired, then you either work at a Stage Two company where under-achieving is rewarded, or you’ve chosen not to be completely honest when your boss says, “Do you have any feedback for me?” Odds are that at some point you: • “Did not see eye-to-eye with management.” • “Chose to go freelance” • “Wanted to spend more time with family” • “Were unware the sexual harassment laws had changed.” But if you’re lucky, you’re the person on the other end of this conversation. And for you, we would like to offer the top five worst ways to let people go,

Quote of the Week:

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."-- Albert Einstein

Life in the Cloud

Today I am in the cloud. Literally, I am emailing via my jerryemis@me.com email account, rocking out to Pandora Radio, and creating a tech visio-like drawing via Gliffy.com . If my iPad did flash or Gliffy did HTML5, I wouldn't need a computer. If I was using Cisco's CIUS tablet device, based on the Android OS, I would be able to do my Gliffy drawing. My thoughts on Mobile computing are two fold: 1. We are just beginning to realize the benefits of mobile devices (phones & tablets) 2. The cloud will be the back end to these new Mobile computing devices I think we are where the PC (actually the Apple) was in 1983. In 1983 PC's were for games and small office use. IBM (the only big computer company) didn't see them as a threat their fleet of "Big Iron" (Mainframes and Mini-Computers). It is 2010, the PC's and their Intel Servers run the [office] world. Click here to check out (a very young) Steve Jobs Keynote address circa 1983! What will 2015 look like?