In the late 1990′s the explosion of the Web revolutionized the applicant tracking market. There were so many ATS products and it seemed like a new one popped up every week. The market expanded, inevitably consolidated, and then more recently it has been moving horizontally to become the Talent Management Suite. In the last few years [...]
When I was a kid, my mother used to trim the crust from the edges of my PB&J sandwich. As I grew older she stopped, but I was never really fond of the crust. And most certainly when we got down to the end of a loaf of bread, the heels (two end pieces) would [...]
When you talk about any technology these days there is one word that will inevitably enter your conversation. Mobile. Everything is going mobile. It still amazes me how much computing power is now available in the palm of your hand. We no longer call them cell phones. They are now called mobile devices. You can [...]
While all of the discussion over the last few months has been about SAP/SuccessFactors and more recently the Oracle/Taleo deal, LinkedIn has been quietly going about the business of making money. After the hyped up IPO there was a lot of speculation that the company was overvalued and no way it could meet expectations and [...]
I have been an unemployed blogger for a little more than a year and it’s definitely time to get back to work. You know you have way too much time on your hands when you start watching television shows like The Bachelor. I hate to admit that I do, and I will probably deny it [...]
One thing I learned early in my career is that if you want to gain anything in this world you need to learn how to give. I attended one of those “self-help” seminars when I was 22 and there was a slogan emblazoned everywhere, on banners, coffee mugs, buttons and lapel pins: “Givers Gain.” While [...]
Well it did not take long for the other shoe to drop. Today it was announced that Oracle intends to acquire Taleo. There has been a lot of speculation that this would be the next big acquisition and I think it makes a lot of sense. We took a poll here at InsideTMT and 50% of the respondents [...]
When I think about how far technology has come in the last 10 years I am always amazed. When you google the name of a restaurant on your i-phone, click the map to get real time directions from your current location with a hot link to dial the number, you wonder how we ever got [...]
The concept of Change Management has been around for about 30 years. To some old school managers it is nothing more than consultant speak. And so long as those managers suck at implementing change, there will be a consulting industry to help them. The basic outline of the change management process goes like this: Define [...]
A while back I wrote a few posts drawing business lessons from some of my favorite movies, The Godfather and Butch Cassidy are at the top of the list. Here is another from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: After traveling to Bolivia to escape the relentless pursuit of their nemesis La Forge Butch and [...]
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Great Books
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
The Art of War: With Commentaries by James Clavell by Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Commentaries by)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, Ray Porter(Read by)
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
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