Yearly Archives: 2009

Mental Toughness: Surviving the IT Recession

Posted: 10:58 am
April 11, 2009
Boss
on Mental Toughness: Surviving the IT Recession

Have you ever had one of those days when you just wished you could push the reboot button and start it all over again? Do you see yourself working harder and harder toward something with rapidly diminishing benefits and are … Continue reading →

And that’s all I have to say about business

Posted: 10:04 pm
April 8, 2009
IT Business
1 Comment

About 18 months ago I started blogging more extensively about business, trying to offer some perspective about what is going on in the SMB space, emergence of cloud services and eventually the unfortunate recession. If you saw it early enough, … Continue reading →

That’s not what I meant at all….

Posted: 10:42 pm
April 7, 2009
IT Business
on That’s not what I meant at all….

The other day I updated my facebook/twitter, rejoycing about how well we’re doing: ExchangeDefender – seven months ahead of goals for 2009 & competitors employees sending over resumes. Jose, a Microsoft PAL from Slovenia asked if this was a sign … Continue reading →

Is this the time to cut pricing?

Posted: 12:16 am
April 7, 2009
IT Business
2 Comments

This is probably one of those long flow posts that goes on for pages but I will make it rather quick as I’m just waiting for a quick SM replication job to complete. Right now, your smaller peers in this … Continue reading →

If Jordan were a lifestyle VAR?

Posted: 3:42 pm
April 6, 2009
IT Business
2 Comments

Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame today. Here is one of the quotes from his trainer: “Michael would go for 40 or 50 points one night, and the next morning he was right back at it … Continue reading →

Shockey Monkey 3 Invites

Posted: 9:51 pm
April 5, 2009
Shockey Monkey
on Shockey Monkey 3 Invites

We’re ready to start beta testing Shockey Monkey 3, launch of which is anticipated in May. Only a limited number of slots are open and participation is mandatory. If you have a heavilly used Shockey Monkey deployment (as in used … Continue reading →

How I flipped my world upside down: I love Mondays!

Posted: 11:05 am
April 4, 2009
IT Culture
on How I flipped my world upside down: I love Mondays!

Having read every BS business book out there, I thought to make up one of my own. Enjoy: Over the last few months I’ve been posting on Facebook/Twitter how much I can’t wait for Monday to come around, usually drawing … Continue reading →

OT: Sham WOW!

Posted: 1:16 pm
April 3, 2009
Misc
4 Comments

One of the favorite staff catchlines around OWN offices is: “Call now, because we can’t do this all day” patented by that annoying guy from ShamWow! infomercials. You can’t make this stuff up. In a story titled “ShamWow Pitchman Beats … Continue reading →

Umm, where did I put my flame thrower…

Posted: 8:05 pm
April 2, 2009
Friends
1 Comment

My buddy Schrag is noticing that the latest bit of self-inflicting gunshots to the head that Microsoft calls it’s marketing program is not terribly inflammatory towards him. So he says here: http://davidschrag.com/schlog/413/with-partners-like-this “What’s that, Microsoft? You’re saying I can be … Continue reading →

PHB vs. CPaaS

Posted: 5:09 pm
April 2, 2009
Awesome
2 Comments

The other day I was bitching to someone about how I am seeing more and more Dilbert comics that resemble my life – except I’m now the Pointy Haired Boss, or at least I think like one: True story, this … Continue reading →