Installing Windows XP in 147 Easy Steps...- August 6, 2003 By now, many of you have seen Mark Pilgrim's post about his experience re-installing Windows XP. Mark, we've all been there! Good news is that there are more than just Scoble and me hearing about it here at Microsoft. Posts like this (thanks to News Gator) are easily forwarded to others that are taking feedback like this seriously. So keep it up! Now, I need to do the same to our kids computer... (I'll go ahead and skip some of the Linux stuff for now, if you don't mind...)http://johnporcaro.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_johnporcaro_archive.html#106023027287857002 More on Job Sharing (In Your Client's Shoes Part II)- August 5, 2003 My brother replied to my question about what kind of response he got, and if someone actually did his management job. Here's his reply: "Actually, I did have an hourly employee do my job for the other half of the day. I set it up with some realistic, yet not real situations without telling her (employee lost his check, employee hates her supervisor and wants him fired, employee got into an altercation with another employee, employee wanted to put in for a shift change, one of my direct...http://johnporcaro.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_johnporcaro_archive.html#106010297353924073 In Your Client's Shoes- August 4, 2003 Just got a note from my brother, who works in Human Resources at an auto manufacturer. "This past week we had a "job share" event where the UAW workers on the assembly line (assembling rear axles) traded places with the management team. I worked on the line putting axle shafts into the tubes in the axle assembly. It was a lot of work (I was sore the next day) and a real eye-opener and I gained an appreciate for what an auto worker has to do day in and day out." I think this is just a great,..http://johnporcaro.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_johnporcaro_archive.html#106002852305344140 Changing Beliefs...- August 4, 2003 Ton Zijlstra gets introspecitve in "Networking Stagnation: Fatigue or Growing Pains" (linked by Dina Mehta). Great points about blogging, and I like the "lessons" he's learned over the past year. Sounds like we're on a similar journey."I can name a few things that became increasingly clear to me in the last 14 months of discovery, and have changed and augmented my belief system:- the paradigmshift behind knowledge management is really fundamental, and is at its core about personal empowerment.http://johnporcaro.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_johnporcaro_archive.html#105997620051174551 The Autodidactic Lifestyle- August 4, 2003 Dana VanDen Heuvel has a great blog on marketing, sales, and sales force automation. He's one of those in the marketing trenches, and I really respect what he has to say. And he helped build an awesome website for his employer, by the way. I think we could use some of his expertise on some of Microsoft's websites.Dana makes a great point that reinvention is not a buzzword but a way of life for those of us striving to be on the edge. I love that!"I was at a fairly high level meeting w a...http://johnporcaro.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_johnporcaro_archive.html#105997236333888456 |