Do this first thing tomorrow INSTEAD of checking your email (Sanders Says)

September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

What’s the most important meal of the day for your body? Breakfast, of course.   Why? It establishes your metabolism and gives your brain fuel to operate well.  Just the same, if not moreso, breakfast is the most important meal for your mind too.  One braniac refers to the most important hour of your day: Hour One.  What you put into your mind during Hour One is critical. So what do you feed it? When you check your email, you graze on the random. Yet, many of my friends start out EVERY day by doing just that.  Think about the message that your Inbox (with 100 or more emails waiting to be answered) sends to your subconcious: “We are behind, overwhelmed, hurry!”

I am so guilty of this. I wake up in the morning by my iPhone alarm, sit up on the edge of the bed and read email. It is no wonder that after that I have trouble focusing on any reading or study. Read the rest of Tim’s thoughts and recommendations on this topic at Sanders Says.

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Good weeks lead to good years (Sanders Says)

September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Good weeks lead to good years Here’s a time management & goal setting system I learned 20 years ago: Good Weeks.  Too often, we measure our progress yearly (annual resolutions and goals) or quarterly (the 90 day treadmill).  The result is often cram-fests at the end of the year or quarter to meet a goal that’s “all made up” in the first place.  Those time lines are usually too long to correct, once the finish line is in sight.  When I was working for Bob May (Pat Summerall Productions) in Dallas, he taught me a simple weekly success system that I use to this day.  His motto was: “Good weeks add up to good months – and good months add up to a great year.”

Read Tim’s full thoughts on this topic at Sanders Says – Good weeks lead to good years

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The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings

October 12, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 technology, although the undeniable power of computer-enabled meeting systems usually comes with astronomical price tags. Still, there’s lots to learn from electronic “meetingware” even if you never buy it. What follows is Fast Company’s guide to the seven sins of deadly meetings and, more important, seven steps to salvation.

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Cure the Sick-Meeting Ills

October 12, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 another meeting is going to be held. From our experience facilitating and attending meetings, we’ve found that bad meetings have similar traits regardless of the industry, company, or project:

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12 Tips for Creating Better Presentations

October 11, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 for you! Creating professional, unique presentations can be much easier than you might think.

This article will help you find the right tools to get exactly the presentation you want. We’ll look at three components of creating effective presentations, and provide timesaving tips to help send your presentation off in style.

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Romania Enters EU With Strong Showing in Strategic IT Investments

October 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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, employing more than 350 specialists, and covering global product support for Oracle product users worldwide, support for Oracle partners in EMEA region, software development for Oracle, support renewals services, and Oracle University Sales for the EMEA region.

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Oracle sweetens partner plans

October 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 currently makes about 44 percent of its revenue through partners, said Doug Kennedy, vice president of Worldwide Alliances and Channels. Oracle intends to boost the amount of business it gets by selling in tandem with partners, he said.

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Oracle buys Sunopsis

October 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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. Sunopsis, which was founded in 1998 and has offices in Boston, Paris and Singapore, is the latest in a string of Oracle buys that has included retailer-oriented software company Retek, logistics start-up G-Log and rival Siebel Systems.

According to a press release from Oracle, Sunopsis was acquired specifically as an enhancement to the Oracle Fusion Middleware line for its PeopleSoft products. Oracle bought PeopleSoft in January 2005 for $10.3 billion in a messy acquisition that was marked by layoffs and court battles. Since then, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has placed an emphasis on fusing Oracle and PeopleSoft products.

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Fortune: 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

October 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 million in total compensation last year, according to Equilar, Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based compensation research firm, which calculated the results for Fortune magazine. Second-highest paid is Susan Decker, CFO of Yahoo! (Charts), who brought in $24.3 million

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CNET: Google makes video play with YouTube buy

October 9, 2006 By Leave a Comment

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 to upload video clips and share them with the world, for better or worse. YouTube will operate independently, and the companies will work together on building new features for independent users as well as for aspiring directors, they said in a press release. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.

“This is one of many investments that Google will be making to put video at the heart of a user’s online experience,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt on a conference call after the deal was announced. “When we looked at the marketplace and saw what was going on, we saw a clear winner in the social networking side of video, and that’s what drove us to start the conversations with YouTube.”

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