Measuring employee performance?
Recently I was asked if time and results were the only things you could use to measure employee performance. Here's a snippet of my response.
The most important thing to remember when measuring performance is that you are trying to measure the things that make the most difference (not just the things that can be measured). The problem is that many of the things that make the most difference are not easily quantifiable.
Best Thing about the Salesforce-Google Toolkit
As you probably know, Salesforce announced the Google Data API Toolkit on Monday. The new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs provides a free and open-source set of tools and services that developers can use to take advantage of Google Data APIs...
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In an interesting press release today, Salesforce announced the opening of a Salesforce.com all you can eat buffet. First to be seated at the table is Dell, in a new deal which supersedes all previous...
Read more about The Salesforce Buffet Opens...Can't get no satisfaction...
‘So how would you rate the service you received on a scale of one to five, five being highly satisfied and one being highly dissatisfied’ said the lady conducting a satisfaction survey on behalf of the company who’d recently replaced my...
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The last couple of month I've been talking to many software vendors in China and Singapore and the topic of SaaS hosting is a recurring pain point highlighted by those I...
Read more about Implications of Self-, Outsourced- and OEM-Hosting...Aurora and Google Chrome
We didn’t collaborate with anyone from Google on the Aurora project to envision the future of the web, so we were especially interested to see their new browser, Google Chrome, and the ways in which it echoes some of the same ideas we came up with...
Read more about Aurora and Google Chrome...Amazon Reduces S3 Storage Prices
Amazon has reduced prices of their Simple Storage Service aka S3. I use Amazon S3 to store all the CSS files, external scripts, web images and the site performance has improved since then because outsourcing to S3 puts less load on the Apache...
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