# archive
All blog posts written prior to 2024
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[ Networking ] 6 min read
Editor’s Note: Any resemblance to persons living or dead, known or unknown, read about, heard about, talked about, dreamt about (just once, don’t ask) not intended. Any offense probably intended. Standard disclaimers …
[ Leadership and career ] 3 min read
“So, why do you want to work here?” If you’ve worked a day in your life, chances are you’ve been asked this question during an interview. And, if you’re like the rest of us, you’ve said something about how much you love …
[ Leadership and career ] 6 min read
Author Janice Davies said, “difficult people are your key to self empowerment, you need to learn how to cope with them, not let them dominate and affect you.” But what if the difficult person is your boss? What then? In …
[ Networking ] 8 min read
In 1876, an internal memo at Western Union is reported to have read: “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” At the …
[ Everything else ] 6 min read
I have decided to take a quick break from my more business-oriented writing of late to focus on something that people seem to have an interest in: how I have my computer set up and configured. This post will necessarily …
[ Networking ] 1 min read
I recently wrote a multi-part blog series for Cisco and, as we know, while it may seem like the writing is all of the work, getting the word out is at least as hard. So, for those of you who have already seen this, I …
[ Leadership and career ] 6 min read
“Very thin line between arrogance and confidence…Being humble is that line. No one has ever said that humble guy is really an asshole.” ‑Unknown In business people quit, get fired, or otherwise leave a place of …
[ Leadership and career ] 5 min read
There’s an old business adage that says, “All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends. And all things being NOT so equal, people STILL want to do business with their friends”. It is estimated …
[ Industry events ] 4 min read
Teren and I just returned from Cisco Live in Orlando. As always, we had an amazing time seeing some of the friends we have made over the past few years and meeting some new friends too. I noticed that this year there …
[ Industry events ] 1 min read
Because we are coming up so quickly on Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando, and because it is a Sunday evening and I cannot find a single thing I am motivated to write about, I decided to build a photo gallery of some of my …