Job Searching Using Social Media Tools

A very good friend recently asked me to help her nephew, Steve.  He is a recent college graduate looking for a job in the business operations  field of Supply Chain Management.  This blog post is a copy of a recent email to Steve about the use of social media tools like blogs, FaceBook and LinkedIn [...]

Religion and Self-Control

I read an interesting blog post today by NY Times Science writer, John Tierney, on the topic of religion and self-control. I submitted a comment to the piece and have copied the essence of Tierney’s blog and my comment here. While I stand by what I say below, I have to admit to the irony [...]

Act Your Age

A great article about the importance of social networks, blogs, wikis - literacy – to careers. Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/19/technology/boom_years.moneymag/index.htm

LinkedIn, FaceBook and the Blog

I received an email today from a former colleague who had noticed my use of LinkedIn and this blog. Cindy is the marketing manager of a regional engineering firm and asked for my thoughts about these tools for promoting her firm.  After writing the following response, I thought I would add it as a post because it explains [...]

Engineers and Bankers, Unite!

This article in the New York Times points out  that among the major mistakes made by GM (and likely at Ford and Chrysler as well) was an over-emphasis on financial outcomes  over product innovation and long-term investment in new products and research.  While the auto industry and Wall Street are very different businesses, what they have [...]