Month: January 2013

Connecting with my business network

  The Goal With the advent of the new year, one of my goals for 2013 was to connect with more of my business network.  This goal includes to reconnect with people that I have not seen for a while and to meet people in person that are in my network that I have done before.    So I had to determine where to start with this goal and how to accomplish it.     So I started with the 900+ contacts I had in my Outlook, which I have accumulated over the years of my professional career.     So in a...

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You get what you pay for

Its an old adage and it rings true everyday in technology.    Technology executives and management today in many cases are forced to reduce the cost of their budget to the overall business.    In reducing expenses it is commonplace to hire junior resources to reduce the IT employee expense portfolio.    In addition many jobs are temporary in nature over the course of a business year and contract staff is hired to fill them, in essence to not have to hire and fire permanent employees. In hiring these contract staff members for temporary assignments, companies seek to reduce cost by hiring...

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