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Employee Goal Setting – lightweight goal setting as a part of day-to-day management

kate — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:34:48 +0000

Everyone knows goal setting is important. For most companies goals are often part of the employee review/evaluation process. However, when I was working on implementing a goal setting/tracking process for some of my engineering teams I went back to look at some of my old reviews and saw that the goal sections were actually pretty empty [...]

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Travel, Reflection and Change

kate — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:37:02 +0000

Over the last week it seems like a lot of exciting things have been happening. I posted my first blog on SEO (which is a mild indication I am progressing above novice and really starting to understand our users and audience – and that is super important if I am going to be successful in [...]

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My Mid-Life Crisis

kate — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:49:46 +0000

I have a big birthday coming up in <2 weeks. Like New Years and other “milestones” this one, too, has me thinking (a dangerous past time). Once again I am reflecting on my life – what I have accomplished, what I had hoped to accomplish by now, and also realizing what I was missing in [...]

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What does it mean to be rich?

kate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:03:35 +0000

As a child everyone had things that wanted to be–some children wanted to be firefighters or police men, the ambitious ones wanted to be doctors or lawyers, so what did I want to be? A millionaire. Yes, as a child I dreamed of living in a mansion, having “staff”, and while I had no clue [...]

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Time Management — put the big rocks in first

kate — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:50:29 +0000

There is a well known philosophy around time management that uses the analogy of filling up a beach bucket–it goes something like this: Image by Susie Underwood via FlickrSecond, the smaller rocks and pebbles First, put in the large big rocks Second, the smaller rocks and pebbles Then the sand And finally, fill up the [...]

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What's New?

kate — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:16:59 +0000

Wow, I have been so busy. It seems lately I have been keeping myself occupied and haven’t had any chance to post anything recently. So let’s see what have I been up to recently? Took a trip to NYC. We spent about 7 days there and even though I had to work during the weekdays [...]

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Passive Income — Is it just a Pipedream?

kate — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:49:01 +0000

In my search to come up with passive income sources I have come across some skeptics. If you go to the Amazon web page for the The 4-Hour Workweek there are tons of comments doubting the value of his passive income and outsourcing in the favor of traditional hard work. I also came across an [...]

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GMAT, iPhone Applications, and a Personal Update

kate — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:45:27 +0000

I have been doing lots of research this week–both in terms of reading information online and talking to resources close to me. Here are the relevant developments: The GMAT. I am going to start studying and preparing for the GMAT. I have been good at standardized tests in the past, but I am not even [...]

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Our Economy: Is this just the beginning?

kate — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:23 +0000

Over the weekend the NYT ran an article of The Debt Trap a series of video and articles about various people in America who have ended up victims of the credit crisis. It is shocking to hear the stories of these people and how they tried to get ahead and despite their best efforts they [...]

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My Motivations

kate — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:37:24 +0000

I have been thinking (always a dangerous past time) about my blog recently and I realized that most of my entries are very disjoint and random. I write about things that I find interesting and things that I think might be useful for someone else. Although I am not sure if all of my chaotic [...]

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