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I’m lucky enough to get to talk to people around the country about topics like emerging technologies like the Web, communication techniques, and how those two mix and mingle with each other in today’s business. So I’m always trying to find new and better ways to get people to understand just what it means [...]
I came across this post discussing the communication techniques of Gen Y and loved the pictures displayed.
Here they all are:
They definitely made some pretty big assumptions here but I think the overall theme works. I wanted to add a bit to the conversation however.
1) Give the Boomers some credit. On the Boomers picture [...]
I think it is probably a pretty easy statement to make that our work environments have changed. With the advent of the Internet and the miniaturization of technologies like laptops and phones there is no longer a need for a ‘8am-5pm mentality’ that we’ve been holding on to since the Industrial Revolution. We are [...]
There has been much sensationalism (include me in that) about the Gen Y workforce and how they are coming to our businesses and into positions of authority and how all things are going are to completely change. I still agree that businesses will need to spend time to understand how to ‘work’ with this [...]
I love Barcamp’s. I love what they stand for, how they are organized, the people you meet, the bonds that are made, the inspiration you can walk away with. It’s fun.
This past weekend I attended a Barcamp, BarcampBank actually, in Vancouver, British Columbia from Texas.
“What?”
That’s right. I watched, nay participated, in a [...]
Alright, I want to set the stage here and see what yall think. My wife and I are going to start doing this.
Let’s establish a standard rule for any phone conversations (cellular or otherwise) that if you get disconnected during the call, whomever initiated the conversation does the call back to re-establish the call.
So we [...]