Hola and thanks for reading.
FYI I’ve decided to switch up my online identity and therefore, this blog is dying … to be reborn in a remix mashup of all my blogs together at last in one spot. All new posts will live at Sparkplug 9.
Thanks so much for reading, and please join the party at […]

I recently received a promotion, and I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a manager versus a leader, what kind of leadership I want to provide, and what kind of a leader do I want to grow to be …
This is tough stuff, and I’m pretty sure I have a long way to […]

Pickthebrain has a post on selling yourself.
I can personally attest that, after getting the qualifications and knowledge you need to succeed in your chosen field, being able to “sell yourself” is the most critical part of professional success.
The highlights:

Be Sold on Yourself
Have a Saleable Package
Be Positive and Enthusiastic
Be Real and Authentic

I’d have to say the […]

. . . Excel help than Excel.
Every single time I need to find out how to do something in Excel, I try to figure it out from Excel help. Search usually gets me nowhere, but sometimes gives me a clue what I should actually be searching on. But the help I usually get is […]

I just got another LinkedIn connection request this morning. Every one has a little LinkedIn fact at the bottom, like this:

Fact: 3,414 CEOs use LinkedIn every day

As you know, since you’re a smart denizen of the blogosphere, whether something is a fact or not is a function of what kind of statement it is … […]

So, Universal wants to invent a new model for music sales:

Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record label, is looking to mobile hardware makers to foot the bill for a free music subscription service for buyers of a certain mobile phone or music player, The Telegraph reported Saturday.

Think. What does a model where you buy […]

Well, I’m unhappy to report that Second Life is just as big a pain in the you-know-what as my first life.
I’ve had an account for years, but haven’t used it much. However, now I’m doing a paper for my master’s program in educational technology, and thought I’d get back in for some hands-on research.
Only problem? […]

Today’s quote of the day:
“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
- Michael Pascal
(From the introductory session of a lean “rapid improvement event” that we’re doing in my company. “Lean,” by the way, is a version of the Toyota Production […]