CareerJournal has some ideas on references for stealth job seekers.
I think the point about listing co-workers works both ways. Talking to an applicant's co-workers can be a great way for a prospective employer to get a sense of coordination and team building skills.
Another plus: The responses are less guarded.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Taking Punches and Succeeding
Take some time out to read Jeff Cornwall's post on the relationship between failure and success.
[HT: www.businesspundit.com ]
[HT: www.businesspundit.com ]
Privacy and Security as Allies
This article from the CSO blog examines how the concerns of the Chief Security Officer merges with those of the Chief Privacy Officer. An excerpt:
Consider for a moment Sandy Hughes, the global privacy executive for the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. Hughes is spending a lot of her time these days talking about radio frequency ID tags, or RFIDs. That's no surprise, since there's no more contentious topic in privacy circles right now than the uses and possible misuses of these inventory tracking devices. Hughes's goal, however, isn't to determine whether Procter & Gamble should use RFIDs. It's to find the right way for P&G to use RFIDs.
Part of that involves reassuring the public. "Nobody yet that I'm aware of is planning any widespread use of these tags on any consumer products, but still you see the concern about [companies doing things like] tracking consumers by satellite," says Hughes, who's involved with EPCglobal, a nonprofit industry association developing standards for the use of RFIDs for electronic product codes. "That's not even in the plan, but [customers are] concerned about it. And because they're concerned about it, we have to address it."
"Procter & Gamble has to move forward for competitive reasons and implement RFIDs," explains Stephanie Perrin, a senior fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a watchdog group. "If Sandy Hughes says, 'We're not ready for this RFID thing,' that's going to get nowhere with the board."
Hughes's mission, then? To help her company formulate a business strategy that takes those concerns into account.
Consider for a moment Sandy Hughes, the global privacy executive for the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. Hughes is spending a lot of her time these days talking about radio frequency ID tags, or RFIDs. That's no surprise, since there's no more contentious topic in privacy circles right now than the uses and possible misuses of these inventory tracking devices. Hughes's goal, however, isn't to determine whether Procter & Gamble should use RFIDs. It's to find the right way for P&G to use RFIDs.
Part of that involves reassuring the public. "Nobody yet that I'm aware of is planning any widespread use of these tags on any consumer products, but still you see the concern about [companies doing things like] tracking consumers by satellite," says Hughes, who's involved with EPCglobal, a nonprofit industry association developing standards for the use of RFIDs for electronic product codes. "That's not even in the plan, but [customers are] concerned about it. And because they're concerned about it, we have to address it."
"Procter & Gamble has to move forward for competitive reasons and implement RFIDs," explains Stephanie Perrin, a senior fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a watchdog group. "If Sandy Hughes says, 'We're not ready for this RFID thing,' that's going to get nowhere with the board."
Hughes's mission, then? To help her company formulate a business strategy that takes those concerns into account.
Changing the Boss
David Maister gives some tips on how to get the boss to change.
An excerpt:
You need to understand what the other person's wants really are. Don't make lazy, short-hand assumptions, such as economic maximization. You need to find out what their real psychological drivers are (need for glory, need for control, insecurity, vanity) and find a way to give them what they don't yet have enough of. Don't be unethical or exploitative, but recognize that you're dealing with the psychological complexities of a person here, not just a "rational, logical" situation.
An excerpt:
You need to understand what the other person's wants really are. Don't make lazy, short-hand assumptions, such as economic maximization. You need to find out what their real psychological drivers are (need for glory, need for control, insecurity, vanity) and find a way to give them what they don't yet have enough of. Don't be unethical or exploitative, but recognize that you're dealing with the psychological complexities of a person here, not just a "rational, logical" situation.
Where to Buy a MIG
A Chinese man has bought a fighter jet on eBay.
And we wondered where the mysterious international arms merchants like to hang out.
And we wondered where the mysterious international arms merchants like to hang out.
Carnival of the Capitalists is Up!
The Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Interim Thoughts blog.
Check it out for an assortment of interesting posts.
Check it out for an assortment of interesting posts.
Women in Business
The manager of Wells Fargo's lending program looks at the trends regarding women in business.
One irritating item from the interview: The implication that because men have been in business longer that they have some sort of genetic advantage. Unless one of your relatives passed on special knowledge, you're in the same situation as most other people in the business world. You enter as babes in the woods and quickly scramble for knowledge and success.
One irritating item from the interview: The implication that because men have been in business longer that they have some sort of genetic advantage. Unless one of your relatives passed on special knowledge, you're in the same situation as most other people in the business world. You enter as babes in the woods and quickly scramble for knowledge and success.
Quote of the Day
There's a great book many of you have probably read called The Millionaire Mind, which describes people who are self-made millionaires.The average GPA for the self-made millionaire in this country is 2.7, a B-, C+ average.
Whenever I teach at Yale or a place like that, I always tell them, "The odds of you people getting very rich are extremely low," which is true. But these self-made millionaires often have had one experience in their lives: Someone told them they were too stupid to do something, and they set out in life to prove the bastards wrong. And, that's a level of drive that you can't measure on tests.
- David Brooks
Whenever I teach at Yale or a place like that, I always tell them, "The odds of you people getting very rich are extremely low," which is true. But these self-made millionaires often have had one experience in their lives: Someone told them they were too stupid to do something, and they set out in life to prove the bastards wrong. And, that's a level of drive that you can't measure on tests.
- David Brooks
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