As faithful readers of this blog know, both Kate and I were laid off from our jobs on December 10th, 2007. Outside of the straight-up layoff, there are tons of details to attend to with the old company in order to move on. It is a true project. It’s easy for a company to let… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Ireland
101 Tasks Helping New Managers to Survive
Andrew Rondeau graciously offered to write an article here on Cube Rules while Kate and I continue our Ireland trip. Andrew has been a great friend of the blog, providing excellent comments and continuing the conversation on many articles. In addition, Andrew interviewed me and 15 other people for the Greatest Successful People series —… Continue Reading
Outsourcing isn’t great yet
If you work in cubes and your position is in the mix for outsourcing, you already know this without the study information published in the Silicon Republic in Ireland, don’t you: Enterprises entering into outsourcing arrangements are focusing too heavily on reducing costs through labour arbitrage alone, resulting in high levels of disappointment and conflict,… Continue Reading
The Emerald Isle
Kate and I are off for a two-week visit to the Republic of Ireland. Don’t worry — there are great articles and excellent interviews all lined up while we’re away. We’ll have Internet access while in Ireland and I’ll be checking the blogs for comments and e-mail. But, our primary duty while in Ireland is… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Working on teams
There are a lot of us working on teams and many teams are not physically close to each other. You might think you’re doing OK, but how’d you like to work on this team for IBM: “Consider Lotus Symphony, a package of PC software applications. Work on a new version of Symphony started last July…. 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
Return from Ireland
As I am writing this on Sunday morning, Kate and I are sitting in the Dublin, Ireland, airport awaiting our return flight to the United States. It’s been a great two weeks here in Ireland — a lot more than what we expected. The Irish people are famous for their hospitality and there was no… Continue Reading