Manage Yourself By Objectives

October 5, 2009 No comments »

As a business owner / manager you have a responsibility to ensure that your employees are productive and happy. Management By Objectives (MBO) is a well known and widely adopted method. While MBO is not perfect, MBO does help to set expectations and goals - attributes of a great working environment.

I think you should practice what you preach. When I talk with new entrepreneurs, I strongly suggest that they start by implementing MBO for themselves.

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FTP – Just Say No!

September 14, 2009 No comments »

FTP = Frustrating, Time wasting Protocol

I can remember when FTP was cool. That was back in 1999 when I was using FTP to download 1 MB files. Now I need to securely share 100MB files. When I think of FTP today I think of failures, no privacy, difficult to secure, no audit trail, and a frustrating user experience.

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Want Privacy? Avoid Email.

September 7, 2009 1 comment »

Never use email to send confidential messages / files. The risk of loss is too great. There are many better alternatives to email. One alternative is Secure Messages from Bit Weld.

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Control Your Internet Image

August 31, 2009 No comments »

My Internet Image

Q. What is displayed when you Google your name?
A. Your Internet image.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could control your Internet image? (here’s mine: Google, Yahoo!)

If you’re like most people, when you search for your name you see links to sites you don’t control and information about other people with the same name.

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