Robert Story – Productivity

How do you start your day? Years ago I started planning mine by writing everything down I would have to do, the night before. I found that drawing up your list the night before prompts your subconscious to work on your plans and goals while you sleep. When you wake up, you feel ready to [...]

Learning to serve your customers is an ongoing pursuit that takes perseverance and practice. What it means to serve your customer continues to change as technology, the economy and expectations change. Do you remember what it was like before the term “self-serve” was everywhere? When someone else bagged your groceries, pumped your gas and cashed [...]

And seven steps to salvation. Tools, techniques, and technologies to make your meetings less painful, more productive — even heavenly. The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings A variety of tools and techniques (plus a healthy dose of common sense) can make meetings less painful, more productive, maybe even fun. There’s also an important role for [...]

Cure the Sick-Meeting Ills Many people dread meetings for being time consuming, pointless, and boring. The primary reason for meetings is to share or brainstorm information or to develop action steps toward accomplishing a goal. Period. But if this were the result of most corporate meetings, people wouldn’t moan and groan when they learn that [...]

12 Tips for Creating Better Presentations You have a presentation to create. It’s important. But, formatting diagrams can take forever and the text on your slides seems to have a mind of its own. Then, there’s the sad fact that everybody’s PowerPoint presentations look the same. Sound about right? If so, I’ve got good news [...]

Romania Enters EU With Strong Showing in Strategic IT Investments In May, 2006, Oracle opened its new services and technology centers headquarters in Bucharest. Oracle centers provide around-the-clock support and consulting services for the company’s customers and partners worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the EMEA region. There are currently 10 Oracle Centers in Romania, [...]

Oracle sweetens partner plans | CNET News.com Oracle will launch a series of initiatives later this month designed to boost the business it transacts through partners. The company will launch a revamped partner Web site that will include Oracle-recommended third-party applications, as well as a more complete catalog of offerings from Oracle partners. The company [...]

Oracle buys Sunopsis | CNET News.com Oracle announced on Tuesday that it has purchased Sunopsis, an enterprise software company that manufactures software for heterogeneous data integration. The acquisition comes just days after a statement from Vishal Bhagwati, an Oracle vice president, indicated that the company would continue to aggressively pursue the purchase of smaller companies. [...]

10 best paid executives: women vs. men – Oct. 10, 2006 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Corporate women made impressive strides in 2006, taking charge at a slew of giant companies, and bringing in big paychecks to boot.The top-earning woman executive is Safra Catz, president and CFO of Oracle (Charts), who took home a cool $26.1 [...]

Google makes video play with YouTube buy | CNET News.com Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday. The deal, which had been rumored for days, will dramatically improve Google’s video-sharing service with one of the Internet’s hottest properties in YouTube, which allows Net users [...]