by Alex | Jul 26, 2014 | Business, Money
Funny thing. I was working on the yearly performance evaluation and appraisal forms of staff (and mine) when this article (on “Why You Can’t Rely on a Salary to Get Rich”) from Business Insider popped up. Talk about the Internet gods doing their...
by Alex | Jun 30, 2014 | Sports
Fundamentals. Ever since I developed the maturity to self-learn, I always insisted on getting the fundamentals right early on. Bad habits are hard to break and simply winging it can impede progress later on. For some reason, the PBA doesn’t quite sit well with...
by Alex | Jun 27, 2014 | Business, Work
We’re about to start a new development cycle at work and my fellow project leads and I were discussing how to we’d like to form our project teams. While we all desire a balanced matrix, one function head insists on going strong matrix where her team would...
by Alex | Jun 22, 2014 | Business, Work
Here’s the context. A project’s deadline is being moved up and it was decided that more of the shared resources (artists) will be shifted to work on it. Another project is ongoing but it only demands a couple of days a week of select people. A project...
by Alex | Jun 16, 2014 | Business, Work
I really find it amusing to hear stories of people losing it at work. Table flipping episodes and berserker breakdowns are quite rare. I personally have yet to witness such outbursts. I’ve seen shouting matches, finger pointing, and cursing but no violence yet....