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Apple CEO Steve Jobs released this letter about his weight loss to the “Apple Community” as the Macworld conference for Apple developers was getting underway in San Francisco, California:
Steve Jobs
“Dear Apple Community,
For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld [...]
Apple fans relieved about Jobs health news - CNN.com
After months of speculation about his health, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday that his doctors believe a hormonal imbalance is to blame for his alarming weight loss.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 53, discussed his health issues in a letter addressed to “the Apple community.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 53, discussed his health issues in a letter [...]
Consumer Electronics: Innovate or Die - BusinessWeek
n May 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that 11%-20% of all electronics goods are returned. Sony’s (SNE) senior vice-president, Mike Abary, explained that defects “aren’t even the top three reasons for returns.” The top reason? The products “didn’t meet expectations.” According to the article, an Accenture report shows that it costs the U.S. electronics [...]
Sources of Hiring
I read in one of the business magazines the following are the % sources of hiring employees.
Direct Sourcing - 6.4 %
Referrals - 25.6
College - 3.8
Career fair - 2.7
Company website - 20.7
Jobs on the internet - 12.3
Agencies - 4.8
Rehires - 5.2
Print ads - 6.9
Misc - 9%
What was alarming and interesting was that over 20% of the [...]
Key things to consider during staffing
Be deliberate and strategic about workforce planning.
Regarding Talient shortages or surplusses - think beyond the obvious.
Tap into all resources.
Define success of your company or job.
Listen and work on Team dynamics.
Address the issues at hand in a most honest way as per rules and policies of the company.
Always go by the books.
When eveluating potential candidates - [...]
Manager mistakes that lead to litigation
Forget about training employees.
Disregard Company Policy and think I am the boss.
Shoot from the hip, with no substance.
Motivate poor performers with raises and bonuses, since they are good at licking the asses.
Criticize the person.
Ignore problem - Ostrich Syndrome.
Put nothing in writing.
Understand that “Boys will be boys”
Lie.
Cover-up on mistakes.
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Critical Primary Laws you must know as a manager in US
Equal Pay act of 1963
Title VII of the civil rights act of 1984
Age Discrimination in employment act of 1967
Executive order 11246
Pregnancy Discrimaination act of 1978
Civil rights act of 1991
Americans with disabilities act
Immigration reform and control act IRCA
Family and medical leave act
Occupational safety and healthy act
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Learnings for managing legal risks as a manager
Some of the things that I think will be helpful for managing legal risks when you are a manager.
Set climate of fairness thatis free from harassment
Monitor hiring, promotion and discipline procedures for fairness.
Observe employee and manager behavior and address inappropriate behaviors immediately.
Respond to complaints in all fairness and promptly.
Document whatever you can, do not delete [...]
Google fixes problem with Apps Start page
Google has solved a problem that affected the layout and functionality of the "Start" pages of its Apps hosted collaboration and communications suite.
Although the bug had the potential to affect many customers, it manifested itself only in instances when Apps administrators had customized their organizations' Start page, said Rishi Chandra, Google Apps product manager.
The problem arose [...]
Top 10: Google miffs admins, IT jobs, Apple notebooks
Google annoyed administrators when it made changes to Google Apps "Start" portal pages without letting them know it was updating layout and functionality of those pages. Some administrators reported at a discussion forum that they were swamped with angry calls from end-users who couldn't access Gmail accounts. On a slightly brighter note, there are some [...]
E-voting report: Several states still vulnerable
Several U.S. states still are not doing all they can to ensure the accuracy of votes over electronic voting machines, and 10 states received inadequate grades in three of four categories of safeguards, a report from three voting security advocacy groups said.
Somewhere in the United States, voting systems will fail on Election Day Nov. 4, [...]
Mozilla offers alpha version of mobile browser for N810
Mozilla plans to release on Thursday an alpha version of its mobile browser for Nokia's Internet tablets.
It's the first public release of the browser, code-named Fennec, and it will work on Nokia's N810 and N800 devices.
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In addition to the alpha release for [...]
Adobe fixes ‘clickjacking’ flaw
Adobe Systems has released a new version of its Flash Player software, fixing a critical security bug that could make the Internet a dangerous place for Web surfers.
The new Flash Player 10 software, released Wednesday, fixes security flaws in Adobe's multimedia software including bugs that could allow hackers to pull off what's known as a [...]
TopCoder eyeing SMB market
TopCoder, a company known for its competition-based software development services, is turning its sights on the SMB market with a new portal called TopCoder Direct that will come out of beta at the end of October.
Whereas TopCoder has previously used its community of programmers to develop custom applications for enterprises, the new offering will enable a wide range [...]
Cisco, SAP launch joint cross-layer composite application
In an atmosphere where government fines for breaches in privacy regulations are increasing, SAP and Cisco unveiled this week Data Privacy Composite Application by SAP and Cisco at the SAP TechEd conference in Berlin.
The application supports compliance with a company?s data privacy policies as well as any external requirements from government agencies. If, for example, [...]