Finding the Right Fit, Part 2
This is a continuation of a post on finding the right fit when interviewing for a job. In that post, I talked about the role of values--how well your own values line up with a company's values. Part 2 is...
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...
Finding 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...
Fun 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...
What 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. ...
Hiring 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,...
Update on Wascally Wabbits
Last year about this time, I blogged about my problem with rabbits in my backyard. The rabbits seemed to have moved to the front yard and while they are a nuisance, I see them more in my neighbor's yard than...
Grand Gestures
I read in a travel magazine about Rory Stewart, author of the book, The Places in Between. The book describes his 600-mile walk across Afghanistan in 2002, right after the fall of the Taliban. He's told by an Afghan when...