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A Message to Garcia

Written by Gregory on July 14, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets, Life, Musings, Missives, & Miscellany.

A boss and later mentor first shared Elbert Hubbard’s A Message to Garcia with me. The brashness, the directness, and candor is refreshing since all too often we walk on eggshells to in an attempt...

Fear Means Go

Written by Gregory on July 12, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets, Life, Musings, Missives, & Miscellany.

I recently confronted a fear of mine head on and it reminded me how liberating and uplifting it is to overcome a fear. If we are not careful fear can consume us and paralyze us from action. So much...

The Corporate Bully

Written by Gregory on June 24, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets.

A good friend shared the Inc.com article (How to Stop Jerks at Work | Inc.com) about corporate bullies with me a few months ago and it has had me thinking about this topic since. The author quotes...

20 Mile March

Written by Gregory on May 13, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets, Trail Notebook.

I went for a nice hike on the Appalachian Trail this weekend and even though the weather forecast called for scatter showers, it quickly turned to steady rain. Under the canopy of the forest it wasn’t...

Setting Up OpenERP on Amazon EC2

Written by Gregory on March 31, 2013. Posted in Binary. 2 Comments

Initial perusals of OpenERP 7 appeared to be quite impressive and offering a robust ERP package for small business. Here are the simple steps to test this out further using Amazon’s AWS cloud...

Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees – Harvard Business Review

Written by Gregory on February 17, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets.

Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees – Harvard Business Review. This is an interesting perspective on Employee Engagement. A good read for any manager.