My excellent colleagues in Corporate Marketing have been asking me for weeks to name my Heroes for Dreamforce. The problem is that I have so many of them
Do I choose Rosetta Carrington-Lue of the City of Philadelphia, who has tirelessly improved the lives of our most vulnerable citizens, or Lesa...
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Let’s relive a classic scene from the 2006 movie, The Devil Wears Prada. Andie, a would-be journalist played by Anne Hathaway, has recently taken an internship at a high-end fashion magazine. Miranda, the magazine's exacting editor-in-chief (played by an inimitable Meryl Streep), is sifting...
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Like seemingly half the Pacific Time Zone, I co-founded a software company in 1998. While we were able to bootstrap it for a while -- coding taking place in virtually every room of my San Francisco flat, including my workstation in the hallway -- we had some real costs that forced us to get...
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Consider the experience of Rob Long, a veteran writer and sitcom producer, as described in his weekly radio commentary on KCRW a few years ago:
Two weeks ago, I found myself in the office of a hematologist — which is a word they use because the other word is “oncologist” — and he was giving me...
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