From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Will Basketball Great Michael Jordan Fail – Again?

February 28, 2010

The news out of North Carolina is that Michael Jordan will become owner of the (U.S ) National Basketball Association Charlotte Bobcats. Jordan at his prime was arguably the best basketball player – ever – in the world. But will he succeed as an owner? History is littered – and deluged is probably a better [...]

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[The Beat Goes On] Something Happening at McKesson?

February 26, 2010

As a former Senior Vice President of Human Resources with McKesson, this site gets pinged by people searching by my former company’s name. McKesson is based in San Francisco, with headquarters at One Post Street. Today for some reason 40% of the page hits today are for an post I did last April 2009 titled [...]

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[Dept. of Bad Advice] Your Brand is Not – Repeat Not – Your Elevator Pitch

February 24, 2010

I could blame my grumpy reaction to this last set of rainy days in San Francisco, but I won’t. Instead I’ll attribute to the type of “nice graphics first, let’s think about what it means later” approach that pops up every once and a while. And a case of bad career advice. PriceWaterhouseCoopers is running [...]

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[Reading Tea Leaves] Candidate Job Fair Suggests Job Market Uptick

February 24, 2010

As someone who worked with a quantitative asset management firm – Barclays Global Investors –  I know the value of seeing data in terms of broad patterns. But as someone who has worked extensively with the research and development side of biotech, I’ve also learned to note signs and signals by the ones and twos. [...]

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[Cherry Tree Chronicles] How to Tell the Truth – and Why You Should

February 22, 2010

We live in a world of spin: from embellished resumes to downright lies, people seem to have forgotten truth with their honesty manners. It’s hard to know if it’s always been this way, or if it’s changed over time. Certainly George Washington, whose birthday was celebrated last week as a US Federal holiday, would be [...]

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[Coaching Tips] No “I” in Team – Not Even a Team of One

February 22, 2010

Scott Berkun, whose work I generally like a lot, recently wrote a piece titled Why You Should Be a Team of One. It is a rare miss – a dud, and advice frankly which should be ignored. Scott has written three books: all are quite good. His most recent, Confessions of a Public Speaker, is [...]

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