How to and How Not to Get People to Work Happily and Productively

There is such a thing. I was comparing the difference between Fring and Skype for ease of download, installation, use, ease of managing settings and de-installation. I called 6 CXOs to discuss the title of this blog post at the same time. I plan to write about both on my TMC blog some time in June.  For now...

Some videos on Youtube that focus on CXOs and human resources:

How to Motivate at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-ifiDuvls ... usually sitting on the front row and aware of everyone around you... are they asleep, awake or using their Blackberry. "Thank God, I am alive today. Let's go make another spreadsheet."

Funny! Advice to managers: use big words, tell your employees what they should be doing even though have never actually done what they are doing for 10 hours in a row, always find soemthing wrong with what your people are doing or else ... why are you even there? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtFI8hXwiA

CEO Rob Davidson on leading in a flexible work environment ... over a 90 person recruitment firm at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmFp2mgh2WQ ...  "A Road to Damascus experience."

Idiot CEO? 123 of Great Teamworking ... a bit funny ... I watched this and thought ... it looks like he is doing everything for his team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxySwKKp-xs



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Guys, Get the Ladies in Your Life a Gift at GSMA in Barcelona

Recipe:
1. Get a DIDXchange mobile phone jacket like this ...

2. From me and Paul Deane (my colleague) at GSMA World Mobile Congress, Feb 16-19, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. If you can't find us, call my Barcelona, Spain phone number I will use while at GSMA (from a www.DIDX.net service provider) at +34 931845154. No charge.

3. Give them to the special ladies in your life. I gave them out at ITGulfcoast meeting and to some of my fellow ECRT running team members. They love them. They even fit my Nokia E61i.

(Hey, Debbie, my favorite friend at Paetec. I'm saving one for you!)


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Choosing Between Appearance & Glamor vs Humor & Health

True, aesthetics is interesting, but in the end...

Appearance and glamor are empty. Humor and health will keep us going much longer in the best and worst of times. When we place too much emphasis on appearance and glamor, we will be disappointed.

This applies to:
people
office
home
family
products
equipment

I'd rather gaze in the endorphin-filled eyes of my old ugly (in appearance) friends, customers and colleagues (me ugly as I want right with them) as we laugh our way through troubleshooting configuration of every ATA on the planet...

than to deal with another ...

who won't stop giving advice on which makeup to buy, stating the fact that he or she can't work in this or that office because it's just not rich and fancy enough, getting their motivation from how expensive my or their clothes are, comparing how people look, buying stuff that looks good but doesn't cut the cake.

Haven't you ever bought a cell phone, laptop, car, electrostatic precipitator that looked good but just didn't perform to the standard you needed? Looking good doesn't mean much.

So which ATAs work with Asterisk best and which with SIP and which work great with both? I'm not asking how good they look, but just tell us the experience you've had with different ATAs from Snom, Grandstream, Motorola, Cisco, Innomedia and more. Configuration, ease of use, performance?

(Thank you, Robin Williams. As you say, some people are so beautiful but they have no expression.)

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