From the monthly archives:

August 2009

[Organization & Culture] Who Stole My Levi’s?

August 27, 2009

I grew up with Levi’s. As a kid raised in Oregon, they were the jeans and cords that I wore to school, to play, and if I could have done it, to bed. They were what kids from the West wore and they were as dependable and reliable as you could get. Along the way, [...]

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[Through the Glassdoor] Layoffs (Still) at McKesson – cont.

August 26, 2009

Reader “S” follows-up with a note from my earlier post on why the Back West blog is getting hit with people doing searches using the keywords “McKesson layoff”: “I’m not sure if your recent post on McKesson was a bait for info about layoffs, but I have a feeling why there may be an increase [...]

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[Through the Glassdoor] Layoffs (Still) at McKesson?

August 25, 2009

As noted here, people who write on the web (like me) can tell things about people who read their blogs: geography, network name, search terms, and even the type of web browser that someone uses. The way it works on this side of the computer is that all sorts of people find you depending on [...]

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[Life Back West] August 2009 – How I (and the Millennials) Spent Summer Vacation

August 24, 2009

There are ways to mark time as well as waste it. Camp Mather is neither. Instead it’s a low-frills family camp where I spent last week on vacation with my seven year old son. It is a place for San Francisco families to affirm the milestones that come with personal development and growth for their kids and [...]

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[New Rules] Did You Flunk the Test?

August 15, 2009

You have a testing problem – you probably just don’t know it. As noted earlier [

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I’ll Take China

August 12, 2009

My first trip to China last week as part of work with a client brought back memories of business from almost three decades ago. It was a different time and a very different place, but ff you worked in business in the 1980’s in the United States, all eyes seemed to be focused on Japan. [...]

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