Outsourced Whiner's Cook Book

Recipe for Instant Network of 200+ People

2008-11-24T05:11:00.000-08:00

It doesn't matter if you lived in a cave all your life or have been out of touch with the only 2 people in your contact database. Here's a recipe to instantly expand your sphere of influence with 200+ people willing to help you.Ingredients1/2 ounce of taking 3 minutes to register for FREE ETP Network conference call1 cup of 15 minutes to register on LinkedIn.com and complete your LinkedIn

Outsourcing is a Dead End Street

2006-03-10T01:58:00.000-08:00

We have reached a stage where people don't want to join IT as a discipline in universities in the west. If I walk around saying 'IT is not important', why should a kid join Imperial College to do a computer sciences degree? - JP Rangaswami, CIO, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource' by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Silicion.com's interview with JP

A Little Good News

2006-02-02T06:15:00.000-08:00

As usual, the media continuously keeps people on the edge of their seats with the worst of events. Here's some good news from Computer World news analyst Thomas Hoffman.Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs are being sent offshore, in reality, less than 5% of the 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market had been displaced by foreign workers through 2004, says Scot Melland,

Complacency Soufflé

2006-01-29T09:11:00.000-08:00

"You can call me Earl, but just don't call me complacent" -C. E. ReidAdjective: complacent kum'pleysuntContented to a fault with oneself or one's actions"he had become complacent after years of success"- self-satisfied, self-complacentSee also: complacently, content, contentedEven those of us that don't cook understand the delicate balance required between mixing the ingredients and environment

2006 Revenge of the Outsourced

2006-01-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

Don't get angry. Get even. Do your homework. Reflect on past mistakes. Adjust your skill gears.Take a look at how the wind will blow in 2006. Use this time to regain some lost ground.Outsourcing will lose its luster, specialization will become a handicap for IT professionalsGartner Predicts Key Tech Trends for 2006Reading the IT Leaves for 2006 by Timothy Prickett MorganAlex Barnett Blog "

New Recipe for Creativity

2005-12-08T04:29:00.000-08:00

Get Creative! How to build innovative companies is a powerful business week article for neutralizing outsourcingBusiness week has a new web site for triggering ideas based on innovative products already developed - http://www.businessweek.com/innovate

Recipe for Creme de Solvency

2005-09-02T13:22:00.000-07:00

On August 15, 2000 I started a very lucrative information technology (IT) consulting assignment. Life was grand for almost a year. Every Monday the client flew me from New York to Charleston, SC and back home on Friday. They paid for the hotel plus all meals and entertainment. There were 6 other IT consultants, on this assignment, getting the same treatment. We had a grand time. The monthly

Start From Today and Go Forward

2005-09-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines: "I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. .."*For Life is a just employer,He gives you what you ask,