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Windows 7 Installation Nightmare

Ken Brodeur — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:43 +0000

I recently upgraded my office computer to Windows 7 and “discovered” many anomalies that wasted many hours of my life. Hopefully, my experiences will save you some of the time and aggravation I went through. My original plan was to install Win 7 on a separate partition of my hard drive and temporarily have a [...]

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Perspective

Ken Brodeur — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales representatives out to different parts of the Australian outback to see if they could drum up some business among the Aborigines. Some time later, the company received telegrams from both agents. The first said, “No business here… natives don’t wear shoes.” The second one [...]

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The Art of War-Sun Tzu

Ken Brodeur — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:19 +0000

The Art of War-Sun Tzu (Edited by James Clavell) Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote “The Art of War” in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundingly relevant to our modern lives. His writings on aspects of warfare from the laying of plans [...]

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Windows Secrets Newsletter

Ken Brodeur — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:06 +0000

This is a bi-weekly newsletter that I really look forward to receiving. If you have anything more than just a passing interest in computers, this is must have newsletter. Windows Secrets as its name suggests is primarily devoted to providing useful and up to date advice for users of Windows and Windows applications. I find [...]

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What Do Beer and Diapers Have In Common?

Ken Brodeur — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Not much, you’d think, unless your infant has a taste for Budweiser. But thanks to a new business research tool called Data Mining a grocery store chain is making more money by placing the diapers closer to the beer. Here’s why: men who run out to the store to pick up diapers for their children [...]

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How To Win Friends and Influence People

Ken Brodeur — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:30 +0000

How To Win Friends and Influence People-Dale Carnegie For over 60 years the rock-solid time-tested advice in this book (15 million copies sold) has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to [...]

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You’re In Business War Whether You Know It Or Not (Part 5 of 5)

Ken Brodeur — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Earlier I stated that “knowledge is power”. By combining strategic planning with strategic computerization you will have the ability to outthink, out-plan and outmaneuver your competition because you will have the “power of knowledge.” Sun Tsu, a famous Chinese general and strategist from the fourth century sums it up nicely with the following quote, “If [...]

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Dell-Please Stop Being So Kind to Me

Ken Brodeur — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:26 +0000

This is a great example of how companies try to nickel and dime you and in the process shoots themselves in the foot. Recently I went online to pay a Dell invoice through Dell Financial Services. I noticed that by default, Dell does not credit your payment the day they receives it. It credits it [...]

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The Spoon

Ken Brodeur — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:06 +0000

(A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an organization) Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange, but I ignored it. However when the busboy brought out [...]

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Good To Great

Ken Brodeur — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Good To Great-Jim Collins What do good companies need to do to become great? To answer this question, Jim Collins (the author of the bestseller Built to Last) and a team of researchers used strict benchmarks to identify a group of 11 elite companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained that [...]

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