Posts by Carol Ross
Engineers With a Whole New Mind, Part 2
Great column by Richard Felder called, "A WHOLE NEW MIND FOR A FLAT WORLD," written for the Chemical Engineering Education magazine. As you might guess, the column takes the concepts from the books, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and applies it to the need to…
Read MoreFinding the Right Fit
A reader commented after seeing my post on Hiring Good People: This was an interesting article. And I’ve seen lots of articles about what employers should look for, but what about employees? What should job searchers be looking for in employers? What should they be asking (without getting weeded out) to ensure that they’re going…
Read MoreFun on a Hot Summer Day
Pictures from a recent birthday party in the backyard: Slip ‘n slide, 12-year old boys, and Super Soaker water guns. Followed by the fascination of what happens to silly putty left to melt on the patio furniture: BTW–It cleans up alot easier than one might think.
Read MoreWhat Happened Before Blogs?
In the Boulder County Business Report, a local paper, the current issue lists bloggers in the area. (No, I wasn’t on the list, although I do have a higher number of average visitors per day than others on the list. Hey, you can’t be everywhere all the time.) One of the blogger names caught my…
Read MoreHiring Good People
Dan Pink’s blog pointed me to a well-written posting from Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and one of the guys who figured out how to make the Internet alot more usable with a web browser (Mosaic). For many of us, who spend alot of time using the Internet, this is like the Edison inventing the…
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