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Tata wins $1.2 billion outsourcing contract: Should I worry?
In what has to be a wonderful win for Tata Consultancy, Nielsen has awarded them a $1.2 billion dollar IT services contract — the largest ever for an Indian global IT services company. The news in Business Week, of course, is how cool all this is for the company. The contract breaks the $1 billion… Continue Reading
When to Check Out
There is a time and a place for work. And a time and place to simply check out. For me, the check out time is May 26th and the check out place is Door County, WI. No cell phones, no internet access, and no work involved. Restoration is required. I don’t know about you, but… Continue Reading
Infrastructure Makes a Difference
Many bloggers like to create controversy with their writing. It’s easy to be negative and destructive. It’s easy to destroy and very hard to build. My preference is to try and build. I’ve had the Business Week article entitled “The Trouble with India” and been reluctant to comment on it. I have a global readership… Continue Reading
Cube Rules Philosophy
Regular readers of this blog will note that I have not posted here in a week — unusual, to say the least. I even set up posts for when I was on vacation for eleven days in Costa Rica (171 pics here on Flickr) in February and checked the blogs from there for comments. In… Continue Reading
How big is your cube?
As I’m writing this, I’m on a plane returning from a ten-day stay in Costa Rica. A big vacation, in retrospect. It didn’t start out that way, of course. It was simply a ten-day trip to have a little amateur radio fun and doing two radio contests on the two weekends there. But it seems… Continue Reading
Vacations: how connected to work do you need to be?
In this totally connected world, how do you handle vacations? Do you take that Crackberry with you? Do you religiously check work e-mail while away on vacation? Do you check all this out when you are a cubicle dweller — or do you change your work habits when you become more of an executive with… Continue Reading
8 Random Facts about Scot Herrick
There are things running around the blogosphere called “memes” and most of them are simply ways bloggers use to increase traffic. Take a cool subject and wrap it up in differentiating title and then tag other people to write about it. Like an electronic chain letter, so to speak. When I get tagged by other… Continue Reading