Category: yahoo
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10 year anniversary of Sept 11th coming up i
I was the Yahoo! News engineers almost 10 years ago. Yahoo! News is working on a 10th year “9/11 Rmembered” http://news.yahoo.com/september-11-anniversary/ This was 5 years ago http://ycorpblog.com/2006/09/11/five-years-later/
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Making Annual Reviews Easier
Annual Reviews It’s one of the most important task people in large organizations need to do. But often we don’t spend enough effort and thought compared with the importance of annual reviews to their careers Most People Hate Reviews I’ve been doing my self review for over 12 years now at Yahoo! For the…
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“What Did You Learn?” : asked Carol Bartz
Today my manager at Yahoo! held an all hands for her engineering group in Yahoo! Media and invited our CEO to take some Q/A. It was wonderful to have Carol there to talk about why what we are doing in Yahoo! Media is important to the company. It was inspiring to hear her long term…
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Goodbye to a valued co-worker: Carlos C.
Carlos was first hired in 2007 into the US News team as one of backend engineers to work on http://news.yahoo.com/. He joined when the team was in it’s growing phase (from 2 in 2001, 5 in 2005). He started off working on fixing bugs, adding features to the modules on the web site. Then helped…
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Yahoo! Taiwan team worked for 5 weeks for a killer product
The team was here and finally finished the first phase of their product. We are all very very impressed. Wait for end of June to hear more!
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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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Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011
From Evernote: Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011 C. and I did a time boxed 15 minute strip
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C’s Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011
From Evernote: C’s Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011 C. and I did a timeboxed 15 minute strip