I love to think about ways that banks could be better.  It’s especially fun right now, while banks are folding left and right, and taking on government money. Small disclosure here, as I spent the first part of my career learning at a rather large bank, and took away invaluable experience.  I loved it.  BUT, [...]

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Market is going either up or down today, how should I play it?
Which direction should I turn for lunch, left, right, or straight?
What color should I paint my walls, blue, red, orange, or magenta?
More than anytime in your life, possibly in history, you are presented with choices in almost everything you do.  Its [...]

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If this question isn’t the most popular of all time, it has to be close: “How is your job going?”.
Inevitably the kosher answer to this question is, “It’s going good”.
Rarely do you get the outlier event of a person telling you how much they LOVE what they are doing.  And if they do tell you [...]

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There isn’t a more frustrating thing in the world than dealing with management that doesn’t get it.  I know everyone fundamentally has some issue with someone in power at work above them, whether its their direct manager or being out of tune with someone above that lives in the clouds.
It’s only natural. It is like [...]

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Corporate America is an awesome place to find all kinds of things that need changing.  I’ve wrote about them before here.  Another concept I have been trying hard to get myself into is “making my own rules”.  Of course this is within reason, and I’m talking strictly about furthering the business.  For example, I’m not [...]

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So, in reality we are all searching for the thing that is going to make us the MOST happy.  Something that will keep our interest.  Something to keep us working hard, honest and feeling rewarded at the end of the day.
Y combinator had a great post HERE about ideas that they would like [...]

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Probably like a lot of you out there, I had no idea what to expect when I entered into corporate America.  I was likely more unprepared because I was trying to break into a technical field with a business degree and really no software skills other than ones I learned myself. I keed, UofL [...]

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A lot of people have asked me about what I am doing on the web, using technologies like Twitter, Facebook, etc.. It’s something that is hard to explain and is a bit nebulous. I use it to help build my social reputation on the web because of the industry I am in, [...]

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I’m a huge fan of the Pareto Principle . Everyone knows what it is, and if they don’t they should. It’s the rule that states that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Lots of people like to use this principle in business to explain all sorts of behavior. [...]

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I loved watching Wallstrip today. Yahoo and Microsoft merger talks has made everyone with a pulse know exactly what it is like running a company that has billions in market cap. I would argue that these are the times where CEO’s actually earn their ridiculous salaries. There is a lot more strategy [...]

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