Category: engineer
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link: How To Set Performance Standards for Your Startup’s New Hires – Yahoo! News
How To Set Performance Standards for Your Startup’s New Hires – Yahoo! News.
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GTD and investing
In June 2011 this year, when I was looking at my investment accounts, I noticed that it had fully recovered from the nearly 40% drop since March 2009. I was in the middle of selling my house, moving into a new rental, planning for a wedding for next year and starting an investment in a…
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Actively Maintain Your LinkedIn Profile : Ask For Recommendation Early
Something I started doing last year is to ask for recommendations on my LinkedIn profile while I’m still working at the company. Instead of only doing so when I have already left the company. LinkedIn’s value is the business contacts and also an online resume with real recommendations from people who are also on LinkedIn. …
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*-public email aliases
How many meetings have you been in, or email exchanges with a selected small number of people. What you discuss and decided doesn’t get surfaced to the right people? How do you know where to send the information to? In general, how do you get the right information to the right people? I’m trying something…
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Single Tasking In The World Of Multitasking
I have been wanting to be a proficient iPhone programming for 1 year now. I have tried 3 times to start but have stopped for various reasons. My most recent attempt has worked, and here is what I’ve changed Focus, pay attention to only one thing at a time I have created a separate account…
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Getting People To Change Is.. Impossible?
That was my thought last year… however, I have changed my stance. The most successful way to get children and adults to change is to model the behavior yourself consistently. If you want people to act a certain way you model it over and over again. Don’t ask them to change though, just act on…
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Be Prepare, You Will Win Most Of The Time
Be prepare for meetings ahead of time. You will be in the minority and you will get more of what you want Have an agenda ahead of time and send it, you will likely get more time If you want to a decision to go your way, anticipate the arguments, the fear, convince the decider…
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Self Monthly Review: 3rd Month Of Being Solution Architect For Media
I have a reminder to myself to review whether I’m doing what my job description is defined as Here is the job description and how I rate myself from 1 (needs work), 2 (meets), 3 (exceed) • Evaluates new technologies; builds prototypes if necessary 1 : I barely do any of these right now as…
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Taking Ownership Of Your Career
I have been mentoring several engineers and a common theme has emerged. We often don’t spend enough time actively managing our own career. These are the positive steps you should ask yourself. 1) The things I am working on right now, are they important and will they help further my career? 2) If they are…
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Soft Skills Of A Software Architect
I will not try to repeat what a software architect is, you can read it here at wikipedia There are various types of architects. Solutions Architect Enterprise Architect Application Architect Systems Architect A large part of the duties of an architect in a large organization is to design and to communicate. In my experience as…