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Professional Societies, Trade Shows and Conferences
What is the most important activity for an early career professional? Probably exceeding expectations in the quality and quantity of your work product and making your boss look good. OK, the second...
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Blue Sky Research: Is Google X the New Bell Labs?
Happy 2015! My New Year’s resolution is to write more posts for this Blog by trying to write some short, simple observations for our MEM community. We’ll see how that goes. Now on to my current blog; I...
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How Coachable Are You?
Growing up, I played Little League baseball and football. Picture a bunch of 10 year olds on the field trying their hardest to look like they know what they are doing without betraying the underlying...
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Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
For the Jon Bon Jovi fans out there, you already know the punch line of this post because you know the song of the same name (although the best version of the song is the duet with Jennifer Nettles...
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Fair not Equal; Regular not Permanent
I received an interesting question from an alumnus not too long ago that went something like this; If you are the champion for hiring someone, how much of an obligation do you have to them once they...
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For the love of the game
There is an old saying, “For love of the game” made famous by a novel and film. For me, the phrase is an excellent summary of the struggle between motivations on opposite sides of the spectrum; for...
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Managing by the Numbers
There is an old saying that “Numbers don’t lie”. Unfortunately, the assumptions used to generate them do! In todays “data analytics” driven world, this is an important issue to keep in mind. One of the...
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