November 30, 2004

Sounds familiar

After hearing from ANOTHER high school friend yesterday, this article from The Onion imitates life.

A Surprising Move

Why would Friendster cede its entire personals business to an outsider?

An especially one with as convoluted and invasive a sign-up process as eHarmony? Especially when Friendster is known for easy-to-get-started profiles?

Somebody is asleep at the wheel.

Wheels in the sky keep on turning

Here is a very freaky optical illusion that produces motion where there is none.

Harvard Sucks

Yalies prove it.

Pat Tillman for Sportsman of the Year

Please go and vote for Pat Tillman for Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year. He's currently in third place.

Snap

Here's a clever second act in an American life.

Bill Gross of IdeaLab!, who founded Goto.com, which became Overture, has launched search engine SNAP.

Now what the world does not need, no doubt, is another search engine.

SNAP's wrinkle is that the books are wide open -- the # of searches, the number of paid clicks, $ revenue.... everything.

Not sure how this helps the users ultimately. but it is kind of clever.

Fun with the 70s

Via Instapundit, here are modern-day remixes of 70s classics.

I liked "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

November 29, 2004

"The creative menu of instant noodles" was made newly

'Izzengenz writes in to post us about IRMA:

A processed food like Instant Noodles is indispensable to present-day life style.

There is no day without processed food menu lined up on a table, which can enhance the pleasure of the table.

An urban life style has been taken its root worldwide and dining style also is varied as well as improved.

Daily life becomes active and there are many busy people with time restriction for cooking meal.

In particular, women those who are engaged in works by joining society and community are stable in number. And the advantage which shortens and saves cooking time has been expanded.

There are Instant Noodles as the most popular and favorite processed food, which meets to such a present-day life style.

Instant Noodles is invented and developed in Japan in 1958, which is consumed all over the world now and chosen as the best food in the 20th century in Japan.

Thanks I!

Class and Money in America

While I'm waiting for the 1,951 e-mails collected in my inbox over the weekend to download, I'm reading this great article on Stephen Schwarzman in the New York Times.

Pumpkin quote:

"There is no real class structure in New York anymore, just relative degrees of publicity," said Michael M. Thomas, a former partner at Lehman Brothers and an author of novels about class and money on Wall Street. "Some people find that a more acceptable form of class system because it is easier to manipulate."

And I think that's right. Where we previously had war heros, aristocrats, and old money, today we have celebrities, CEOs, and self-made billionaires.

November 23, 2004

TheLadders.com: $100K+ Executive, Management and Professional Jobs from Executive Recruiters and Hiring Managers

But don't take our word for it, read what our customers are saying:

Thank you very much! I am taking a position with U-Turn/Vizgo, a Prague-based technology company that provides streaming video content such as Reuters news to mobile phones in Europe and Asia. I will be responsible for launching the company into North America. I have been very impressed with SalesLadder and plan to reinstate my membership as I complete my project with U-Turn. I will also be recommending you to others and contacting you with any future hiring requirements that I might have.

All the best!
Dawn Cole

Thank you for this career opportunity! We executives truly need a service like this. Many other sites do not fully understand how to cater to the executive mind set but, you have accomplished that! I would love to further my career by using your site!

Mark Bester
Atlanta, GA

I just started advertising on RecruitLadder last week and results so far have been outstanding. Great caliber candidates have responded to my ads.

Thanks,
Gary Hobbs
Custom Search Professionals

I will be managing the quality assurance department for a nationwide out source provider. This will include quality control (setting up the process, first), training, workflow analysis, production efficiencies, etc. The Ladders have worked very well for me. It gave me more than just job opportunities. The valuable information and suggestions that came along with the email each week were great. Thanks, hope I don't need to use your site again, but I am glad it is there. I have referred several friends and network associates to this site.

Joyce E Lutz
Fort Worth, TX

I got a job with The Target Corporation, as a Sr. Project Mgr.I have seen many good jobs on your website, and recommended your site to a few friends. Most of the positions you have were not listed elsewhere. I enjoyed the articles too! I wish you continued success!

Jeanine Viani
Minneapolis, MN

For several weeks now, I have been a daily visitor to UpLadder. As someone contemplating my own job/career transition, I am extremely familiar with many job sites, and find yours to be unique in several important and basic ways, from the elegance of your business approach to your customer relations pitch (intelligent and not preachy) You make excellent use of the latest technologies. The site looks and works great. Your job descriptions are clear and concise. And your listings are top notch. Its all very well thought out.

Brian August
New York, NY

Just a quick email to say thanks for a great "no BS" service, great web experience, and a *great network! Your, "I'm not going to waste your time with gimmicks," personality shines throughout the site, and is a refreshing respite and oasis from the vast wasteland of cyberspace headhunters. Thanks for keeping it real, and don't be afraid to keep speaking your mind—the Internet can be a very intimate medium and your courage to distance yourself from corporate "brochure-speak" will continue to differentiate your brand from the pack.

Doug O'Bryon,
Germantown, MD

SalesLadder is a comprehensive listing of sales jobs throughout the country and designed with an excellent user interface. It was easy to navigate through the positions, area of the country, and/or industry. I have recommended the President's Club to a number of sales/account executives to assist in their search.While I haven't landed my next sales management position via SalesLadder, I am moving forward on another opportunity. If I ever get back in the market, you guys will among the first ones contacted.

Jeff Pavic
Cleveland, OH

The Presidents Club helped me bring into perspective the type of job I wanted. It also helped me decide whether I should stay with my current employer. Even though I am not new to the workforce (I am 46), I was entertaining career-change options.

Dave Cousminer
Houston, TX

I wanted to let you know your SalesLadder newsletters are helpful and enlightening. Thank you for giving us good advice, consistent skills building tips and a steadfast focus.

Mick S.
Lockport, IL

Regarding my experience with FinanceLadder, it was very very good. There were no hidden agendas, a lot of good advice, and real job prospects.

Thanks,
Ted Crane
San Carlos, CA

I must commend you on your site. With a little bit of diligence, I was offered a position at 3 times what I am making now. I still have not decided if I am going to take the position, but it is a better offer than I have had to date.

Thank you again,
David C. Gess
Lexington, KY

Just a quick note to say thank you, thank you and thank you! Recently, and within 3 weeks from the email posting date of October 18, 2004, I secured a Regional Sales Executive position with a growing technology company. Without SalesLadder, I would not have known about this posting. SalesLadder is truly the best job search tool available today. I will recommend your service to anyone in sales. Thanks again.

B. Morris,
Boston, MA

FinanceLadder worked well for me. I found it much more convenient than trying to remember to continually check ALL of my target companies' Web sites for opportunities. And, they were often other opportunities at companies not on my target list which I became aware of through your FinanceLadder.

Regards,
Jim Hendry
Hopkinton, MA

This is one of the best services on the internet and one of the best uses of web technology! Your attention to customer satisfaction is the finest I've ever experienced. The responsiveness, thoroughness, and integrity shown by TheLadders make it incredibly
valuable. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Tom Taylor

I have to say, I'm very impressed with the personalization of your service. I'll definitely return to TheLadders when next I'm on the job market, and I'll refer friends whenever appropriate.

Kathleen Ruddy
Altadena, CA

I will be managing the quality assurance department for a nationwide out-source provider. This will include quality control, training, workflow analysis, production efficiencies, etc. TheLadders worked very well for me. It gave me more than just job opportunities. The the valuable information and suggestions that came along with the email each week were great.

Thanks, hope I don't need to use your site again, but I am glad it is there. I have referred several friends and network associates to this site.

Joyce E. Lutz
Fort Worth, TX

SalesLadder is a comprehensive listing of sales jobs throughout the country and designed with an excellent user interface. It was easy to navigate through the positions, area of the country, and/or industry. I have recommended the Presidents Club to a number of sales/account executives to assist in their search.While I haven't landed my next sales management position via SalesLadder, I am moving forward on another opportunity. If I ever get back in the market, you guys will among the first ones contacted.

Jeff Pavic
Cleveland, OH

I just started advertising through RecruitLadder last week and results so far have been outstanding. Great caliber candidates have responded to my ads.
Thanks,
Gary Hobbs
Custom Search Professionals

I just wanted to let you know that I think MktgLadder is one of the best—if not THE BEST—sources for locating senior level/executive positions available today.

While I recently landed a position through alternative means, MktgLadder was the one source (outside of my own local networking efforts) that I could depend on for providing key leads. My search included, multiple locations—which made your site even more useful. I submitted to several postings and actually had some success (leading to interviews and at least one offer).

If I should find myself in the search mode again in the future (hopefully not too soon, however!), I will most certainly re-subscribe to your service. I have told several senior/executive level friends across the U.S. about it! Keep up the great work.

Thanks again,
Mary Kall,
Portland, OR

Regarding my experience with FinanceLadder, it was very very good. There were no hidden agendas, a lot of good advice, and real job prospects.

Thanks,
Ted Crane,
San Carlos, CA

Absolutely THE BEST job info site on the web! I joined several sites and SalesLadder has the most current real time information and postings. I never felt like I was apart of the "herd" when responding to job postings.

Reg Bravo
Seattle, WA

Thanks to FinanceLadder.com I have been able to quickly find new employment and I wanted to share with you how this came about. I had become aware of FinanceLadder.com and started looking through the types of employment posted on the site. I scanned two areas, the Northeast and the Rocky Mountain region and did so for about three months while waiting to complete my Master Program.

At the time I though it right to begin the interview process I then subscribed so as to be able to have access to the detail behind the descriptions posted. Within two weeks I found some interesting postings and applied to one in particular in the Rocky Mountains. The firm flew me out and within a week of the interview I was offered a position and have accepted it.

While skeptical at first, and generally mistrusting about on line subscriptions, FinanceLadder was exactly what I needed at the precise time I needed it. I have recommended FinanceLadder to my friends who share finance as a profession. Thank you for your service.

Converted,
Larry Friis
Pennsylvania

I saw this great job for a Marketing Manager on your site. I had already networked with the company offering the position and called and said, "Hey, I saw this job offered and would really like to be considered for the position." Multiple interviews later, voila, I got the job. It is close to my house, great people, and a company I know will be great. While I had already done the networking with this company, I would have never known the position was available without the help of your site. I have recommended it to many friends and others looking for marketing jobs!

Thanks for making the process a little easier!

Kim
Oakland, CA

Wow. Talk about service! That's what I expected from your company as the jobs, offerings, articles and details have been great, great, great. I have referred your service to several of my former colleagues. Thanks again & I look forward to continuing to read and learn from your mailings.

John Lenart
Media, PA

With your SalesLadder system we've been able to secure our first Business Development Manager for the state of Mississippi already. He came on board September 28th he looks very promising. The quality of your resumes far surpass what we were getting from Monster.

Jim Cruz
President
Cross Marketing Associates, Inc.

I just accepted a great job offer from a listing I found on SalesLadder. It was a six-figure package as a Regional Manager based here in the southeast U.S. Your system does work!

Ed Rinker
Cary, NC

Thanks a million, Marc. This is by far the best resource for higher level sales jobs I have found.

Eric Ayala
San Francisco, CA

Your service is over the top. I haven't found anything to compare it to. I landed an upper management position last week. I will definitely forward this to others. Thanks again for your help.

Dick Peterson
Stillwater, OK

I took a sales position with Microsoft that I found on their website after following a posting on yours. I've been absolutely pleased with the website and will continue to refer friends. As info, I also used the resume rewriting service your recommended and Steve was excellent. The process of discussing my employment history with him was the perfect practice prior to starting my interviews.

Warm regards,
Adam Morgan
Charlotte, NC

I hadn't been out in search of a job in 15 years. The processes have
all changed and I was suddenly in completely unknown territory. Elevations provided a good deal of focus on the right types of jobs. I got a lot out of the feedback from other participants and their experiences. As I'm sure you are aware, once you've reached a certain level it seems more difficult to find the perfect role and culture. Reading the observations of others at a similar place in their careers made me aware that I wasn't alone in my views or requirements. A great resource!

Thanks!

Lilian Myers
Orlando, FL

I am intrigued with your site. I used it to apply for a local position and got an interview within one week. Impressive. I may or may not really want the job, but results are results and you delivered.

Paul Cronin
Andover, MA

After a long career (10 years) with one company that ended in 1998, I've worked for 5 companies in the last 6 years. During this time, I have used just about every search tool available. I can say, without a doubt, that yours is the best on the market. Since I've been using FinanceLadder, I've had two job offers and am working now in the best position I've ever had.

Thanks for a wonderful product, a great idea, and a tool that thinks outside the box. Keep up the great work...you're helping more people than you know!

Neil David
San Antonio, TX

Your resource has been, by far, the most comprehensive and rich in this challenging period and I appreciate your continued positive & upbeat attitude each week. So much so that I have turned two former unemployed colleagues onto your service. Both our futures look very bright—your ever expanding/growing service business to executives in job search with legs to expand exponentially in other fields and mine in a new and exciting adventure.

Best of luck and thank you.
Bruce Bennett
Bronxville, NY

I just wanted to send you some quick feedback. We posted our open executive positions on a select group of sites. We have had, by far, the best response from your site. The resumes we have received have been outstanding, and we have scheduled several interviews.

Congratulations on doing exactly what you promised. Your site will always be
the first we turn to.

Regards,

Al Hinkle
KioStar, Inc.
San Jose, CA

MktgLadder is really great and I recommend it to all of my colleagues in marketing. I received several interviews and three offers because of my utilization of the service. Thank you for everything. I am now the new Marketing Manager for Levis Strauss Signature.

Edward Bourelly
Roswell, GA

Though I am very happy with my employer of 5 years, I invest in SalesLadder because one never knows when "that dream job" is going to come up and where. Besides as they say "time is money" and TheLadders saves me time by helping me to keep abreast of hiring activity and compensation in my target industries and the places where I'd like to live—even far flung markets such as Madrid and Hong Kong!

Mary McConnell Bows
New York, NY

MktgLadder is awesome! I have forwarded it to everyone I know, sometimes with hesitation because it is so great and I didn't want more competition on jobs!! heehee.

This is just a great piece of information and tool for the unemployed, underemployed and for marketers who just want to be in the know. Keep up the great work—it works!!

Dianne Hirsch
Austin, TX

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for this incredible site. I've only been a member for about 2 months and I recently accepted a position I saw advertised on FinanceLadder. Unlike other web sites, I found several positions in every issue of your newsletter that appealed to me. Without a doubt, I found FinanceLadder the most efficient and cost effective tool in my job search.

Best Regards,
Greg K.
Cleveland, OH

I will be the Ex. Regional Director, Field Marketing for Bally Total Fitness—West Coast. I will be responsible for Field Marketing, Advertising and Promotions from Seattle to Dallas.

In the 18 months that I was unemployed, MktgLadder was by far the BEST on line employment tool!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!

Avery Bell,
Los Angeles, CA

MktgLadder has been great! I would absolutely recommend it to anyone. The quality of the positions and companies has been excellent. I would not hesitate to recommend MktgLadder to anyone challenged with a career search and with very limited available time.

Jeremy
Cincinatti, OH

TheLadders certainly understands customer satisfaction; Congratulations! I will tell everyone I know about your service and products. Thank you for your quick response and willingness to make your service an extraordinary value!

Tom Taylor
Acton, MA

I wanted to thank you the resume critique made available with my Presidents Club subscription. I spoke with Mark Bartz today of Career Resumes and received some great tips and job strategies as a result of our conversation. Mark approaches resume strategy from a brand development and product differentiation perspective that I both enjoyed and appreciated. I would highly recommend Career Resumes services to other candidates in need of either a resume tune-up or overhaul. I am also enjoying my SalesLadder Presidents Club subscription and enjoying the leads you are turning up. Keep up the good work!

Mike Montalvo
Seattle, WA

You may well have the best job search website in the industry. My compliments. I have been in the computer industry for sales for 20 years now. Good job!

James Howard
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

I just wanted to let you know what an excellent job you have done with this email. It seems you have people confusing price with cost. In other words, your price is $150. The real question is, how much does it cost NOT to have your services? (time, money, frustration) You would think most of the people who join or look at you're site would know this. At the same time, 65% of all sales calls end up with the so called "professional salesman" leaving without asking for the sale! My point is, people who have money and success think in terms of what a service will do for them, not the price.

Mike P.,
Rochester, NY

I am the Professional Services Manager for webMethods covering Texas. SalesLadder has been great. It helped me expand my coverage and become aware of new opportunities—I simply couldn't hit all those company websites each week.

Luke Mallinson
Dallas, TX

I am absolutely amazed by the quality of resumes that TheLadders is able to produce. In the recruiting business you are always looking for the person or data base that can provide the proverbial “Needle in the haystack candidate” and in my professional opinion; TheLadders has that capability. I have seen tens of thousands of resumes over the years and no other web data base can produce the resumes & contacts that TheLadders can produce. Keep up the good work!

Kevin Linville, Executive Recruiter
Corporate Personnel & Associates
Gladstone, MO

I think UpLadder is a great product. While I didn't find my position through it, it provided some good leads and I was able to notify some other colleagues of opportunities. You provide a wide variety of industry and that is wonderful for those of us who are interested in switching industry. I would recommend the website to my friends. My frustration with internet recruiting is the lack of response employers give back to the candidates. I appreciate the volume of inquiries the internet generates for employers, but the lack courtesy in acknowledging receipt of my inquiry is a huge negative for me. Thanks for the opportunity to provide you feedback.

D. Ritchie
Shreveport, LA

I was really happy with SalesLadder. It was a great resource in my job search—it was user friendly, contained important information that was relevant to sales people and listed a lot of good jobs. I would definitely recommend it to someone, much more than monster or careerbuilder.

Diane Shively
Hermosa Beach, CA

I LOVE your product! As a marketer and ad agency professional with over 20 years experience, I recognize the absolute best grouping of choice marketing opportunities available anywhere. Would I ever love to market your services!

Daniel Carazo,
Syosset, NY

After searching for several weeks on my own, I have found more qualified postings in a mere 30 minutes on your site.

Thanks,
Amber
Asburn, VA

Please cancel my husband's monthly subscription... thanks to your website, he is starting a new position later this month. It is a great opportunity in the industry and location he wanted to be!!!The beauty of your newsletter is that it presents REAL job opportunities that we did not find on any other job website (i.e. Monster, Execunet,etc.). Using your industry search function, we were able to find various jobs in the exact industry he wanted to be. The newsletter also provided a direct link to the company...my husband's resume went directly to the in-house corporate recruiters vs. contracted outside "head-hunters" which seemed to speed the process up. Thanks for the wonderful newsletter. I have recommended it to several friends.

SR
Fairfax, VA

I have been in recruiting for over 16 years and specialize in recruitment for manufacturers of consumer goods. TheLadders reaches highly qualified people in a timely manner and has resulted in numerous placements. They appear to be especially effective in reaching the currently employed as well as unemployed candidates. Employed candidates cannot afford to risk their jobs by posting their resume on the Internet, and your service brings jobs to their attention. I also find the process of posting a new job very quick, easy, and effective. I particularly like the ability to describe the industry for the job. Other services force a choice from a pre-determined list, which often is not exact enough to be useful. Best wishes for continued success, and you can be assured that I will continue to use your services.

Steven Kendall
Lithia Springs, GA

Marc,

I just wanted to let you know I am still going to go through your website every week, but that I am a SalesLadder success story.

While I wish to keep the details private, I did apply through your website to a snack food company position out of state about 2 months ago. Just 3 1/2 weeks ago, I was called for an interview in a position that suddenly became open in my state. I am now completing my first week as a [snack foods manufacturer] division employee!

I must confess that I got nervous last week when you listed the position on your website and I already had a signed offer letter, start date, and full relocation package in place for that job (Albany, NY). However, I never would have received that first fateful email from [snack foods manufacturer] had I not applied through your website and I have NEVER seen any of these or similar positions advertised on other websites.You can take full credit and I freely recommend your website!Thanks!

Dana B.
New York

Let me say how much I enjoy and value MktgLadder! This service is fantastic—you've eliminated all the junk and phony postings, and aggregated 'insider' postings, all in one place. Great service—thank you for providing it! I've never before considered paying for such a service—as a person with four years of experience as a recruiter, I never thought I'd pay to use a job board. But MktgLadder is so valuable, it was an easy decision for me to join. (And the price points make it easy to try it!)

I'd like to propose an improvement to your wonderful service—could you add a search tool / some search functionality? There are low-cost or no-cost options available, which may work with your existing database structure. It would just be a really nice addition to your current product. [ED NOTE: We’ve since added sorting functionality to the site. Thanks for the suggestion, Cathryn!] Again, I love the service, I'm very happy with it, I believe the quality and exclusivity of the openings are great. I also utilize job postings which may not be exactly what I'm seeking, to explore more about the company where possible, or the recruiting agency—both of which are helpful in the job search and for networking.Keep up the great work!

Respectfully,
Cathryn Drost-Hansen
Berkeley, CA

I really have to commend you all on your service. I cannot think of a way to improve things. You are a top notch service and really put forth a lot of hard work and effort in trying to provide members the best possible resources available for those seeking employment. I found a lot of good jobs available and am hoping one of them comes to fruition.

Kimberly Estrada
West New York, NJ

I have found the newsletter interesting and informative. I own a small business which I will be selling my stake in shortly, after the loose ends are tied off, I will be actively seeking an executive sales and/or training position. We'll see how the interviews and/or converstions transpire after I use SalesLadder, I am optimistic!

Andy LaRochelle
Warwick, RI

You'd be surprised at how many people out there underestimate the power of simple courtesy and timeliness. I appreciate the connections, opportunities, and professionalism I have so far observed from the team.

William Bahle
Covington, LA

I think SalesLadder is a great tool, and the recent upgrades to the web sites have improved the search capabilities. I also like the segmented approach and "folksy" image SalesLadder portrays. I think that is a major attraction versus Monster, HotJobs and the larger services.

RF
Denver, CO

You rock...the service and the insight you provide are great. I have greatly enjoyed receiving the weekly e-mail, however I did recently secure a job through my network.

SW
Downington, PA

Thank you for providing such a great resource for individuals in the process of seeking our next career.

S. Brundige
Dallas, TX

Your site gets better-looking and has good content every week! Well worth the money.

Robb Brush
West Linn, OR

I wanted you to know that I still feel you offer a fantastic service and I wanted to wish you all the very best for continued success and I will pass the word around to people I come into contact with about your site with many positive things to say about it. I've been trying to make a go of it through independent consulting work so I can really appreciate how hard you have worked to grow and develop your own business. So I doubly wanted to send my heartfelt appreciation to you and everyone that work so hard at your company to provide support to people like me out in the job market struggling in this jobless recovery trying to find work! Your web site was one of the bright spots on my horizon.

Kathy G
Pasadena, CA

I landed a Director of Sales position at a Software company that specializes in an ERP application for Broadcasting and Cable Operations. To be honest I did not even consider this area but they found me through SalesLadder. I can't remember exactly but I think it only took about 60 days once enrolled on your site.

Conrad Coffield
Clinton Corners, NY

I have to compliment you on the offering of positions you list in your web site. Your folks do a fantastic job in researching and exploring for excellent opportunities that other, larger, web sites have not come across. Congratulations and keep doing a great job. Personally, I still haven't found the right match, however I have received calls on the few positions I have applied for.

Vito Quivelli
Stamford, CT

I have no success story to tell for now. But, let me just tell the whole group about my thoughts in SalesLadder. First, I believe (not just think) that SalesLadder is better than other Sales' job advertiser and recruiter. For example, unlike Monster.Com, the responses are more personal and precise. As an international job-seeker, it feels better if genuine letters are sent, read, and given timely response. Second, the website is very helpful and accessible. Job-seekers in the sales and marketing field can have some tips and recommendations. Great! Lastly, the email campaign is very encouraging. I constantly creative receive emails about job-seeking in the Sales Field.

P.S. Monster is just not focused in the Sales Jobs. I wish you more success!

Aris Gonzales
Manila, Philippines

Your site is the best, most focused, reliable, and detailed job search tool I have ever used. The only thing that I could ever suggest is to be more aggressive in your marketing. More people need to be aware of your service, and utilize your site to better their lives.

Congratulations and thank you for all your invaluable assistance.

Steve Casale
Burlington, VT

Out of all the internet researching I have completed, I have found your site to be the VERY best and I would recommend it highly to all of my friends. I truly look forward to what I will find on Monday mornings from your site!! Great JOB!

Mary Fredella
Jordan, NY

Your service is great! the price is right and the listings are practically unattainable anywhere else. i got a job with [name-withheld] pharmaceuticals. i was also contacted from listings on your site. i will definitely recommend your service to any acquaintances seeking professional employment!

Joshua Estes
West Palm Beach, FL

Elevations was great at allowing me to regionally focus on job hunting. I was able to pick and choose jobs that fit my geographic and professional needs quickly and simply. The job I finally took as a marketing manager in Charlotte was not something I found on TheLadders but I did have other opportunities that I found on TheLadders.

Eric Peterson
Brookline, MA

Marc,

After much research of all the resume helper sites you sent out a few weeks ago, I selected to go with Louise Fletcher at BlueSky Resumes. Louise did an incredibly thorough job, and the resulting resume is absolutely stellar. She is not cheap, but she's worth every penny....thanks for the recommendation!

Best,
Mark Stanley
Miami, FL

The job I got *was* listed on MktgLadder, but I got it through networking with a colleague. So I'd put that 50% in your column.

Hey, thanks for the personalized attention. You guys are going to make boatloads of cash.

Ari Paparo
New York, NY

Thanks for responding so promptly. Your business stands out from others. I wish you all the best.

Jan McClure

I haven't found the perfect job yet but I like your site and ease of info presentation. I have a good feel something will come across soon.

Nic Romano
Dana Point, CA

Can't say I'm overjoyed to be on board with a job search system (with all that it implies), but it is surely nice to know you guys are out there.

Cheers,
Paul Clewis

I have found two positions through using the internet. The quality of the jobs on your site were stellar, and I found with few exceptions were current.

Brian Miller
Cumming, GA

Wanted you to know that the response we are getting from your site is better than any we have posted! Congrats!! We are so pleased.

JayJ Wright, President,
TheWrightGroup, Dallas, TX

The SalesLadder is great. Your timely and good job opportunities were deeply appreciated. Well done.

Tom Donahue
New Hope, PA

Bush in Chile Video

Here's the video of Bush helping his Secret Service agent through the line.

A New Force in the Universe

Douzet.com

Shakespearian Monkeys

How many monkeys does it take to type Shakespeare?

Check it out.

A Shame

Iris Chang, who revealed to the world the horrors of the Rape of Nanking, is dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It's tremendously sad that somebody who did so much to bring justice to the world should go. It seems the weight of her terrible stories proved too much to bear.

Very sad.

Triangle of Death

For makking sense of the situation in Iraq, and what the acutal operational issues and opportunities are, there is no better source than Belmont Club.

Dan Rather Gone

ABC News: Online reports Dan Rather forced out at CBS.

Score one for the pajamuhadeen!

An Old Friend Writes

Got a line from an old high school friend today, who Googled me to good effect:

I wanted to tell you that I still have the CAT Scan of your brain from when you had Meningitis. You probably don't recall that you gave it to me and told me to keep it as you may be famous some day. I have kept it and treasure it still.

So it turns out I was right, I am famous, but who knew it would be for promulgating bad cover art the world over?

Thanks for writing in Alyssa!

November 22, 2004

Fantasy Smack Talk

straight from the source.

November 19, 2004

Apple v. Apple

ContractsProf Blog: A Tale of Two Apples

November 18, 2004

Email from a Marine in the 11th MEU:

You must read this email on our selective attention to detail in Iraq.

November 17, 2004

Hip-hopper punched at awards; puncher stabbed, stabber sought

Great headline in the Arizona Republic today.

Via OpinionJournal.com which notes "And What of the Seeker?"

November 16, 2004

The FedEx Logo Guy

explains the arrow you never see.

Hint: it's between the 'E' and the 'x'.

Twerps in my Party

A Congressman that can't handle wearing a button that says "I-69".

Psst.... wanna buy an internet company for $1.7 billion

The dubiously valued, short-squeezed-higher, TravelZoo is up 12x this year on no news.

Dot Pictures

An inside source sends this skinny on the "Hedcuts".

November 15, 2004

Why is the snooze function on alarm clocks always set to nine-minute intervals?

A great answer from AskYahoo!

The Evanescent Baseball Blogger

Sad. Will others join them?

A Nice Move

Perhaps adults are finally taking the reins at Google.

In a clever bit of timing to distraction, the Googleboys announced a doubling in the size of their database on the eve of MSN's vaunted search announcement.

Just good timing or are the Merry Kids of Mountain View finally learning to kill?

November 14, 2004

Shrill Demo Hits It On The Head

It's turning into advice for the Democrats day here at Stone (or perhaps affirming Democrats' advice for themselves day).

In any event, the normally shrill and unbalanced Josh Marshall has very, very sensible advice for Democrats today in this post:

The difficulty for Democrats today is that they excel at the libretto of politics but have little feel for the score.

Democrats frequently console or rally themselves with the fact that most voters agree with them on individual issues. And then they're mystified when they don't win elections. Sometimes it seems, or people convince themselves, that it's because one candidate is more likable than the other. Some people think that's the case with this just completed presidential election. And perhaps it is to some degree. But the bigger difference is that Democrats don't do anywhere near as good a job at telling a story with their politics.

If you want an example think of a movie with great acting and set-design but no discernible plot.

Yes, you're for this and that policy and you have this, that and the other plan. But what story or picture does it all amount to? What things does it say are important and which things less important? What does it all amount to in terms of who we are as Americans and who we want to be?

I think I can tell you what the Republicans are for and without referencing hardly any policy specifics. They're for lowering taxes in exchange for giving up whatever it is the government pretends to do for us, (at a minimum) riding the brakes on the on-going transformation of American culture, and kicking ass abroad.

That's a cogent analysis and a sign that some Democrats are beginning to understand their quandary. In the absence of Marxism, or even Cold War socialism, there is no coherent philosophy or ethical framework on which the Left can hang its hat.

Yes, yes, as cited above, the tenditious assertion that "people agree with Democrats on individual issues" indicates that when issues are framed as "should we do something about education, or crime, or civil rights" people will agree with action over inaction. And the Left's policy bag has degenerated into just such an endless series of giveaways that, fortunately, are sweet on the tooth for the moment, but when understood as an entire diet, are more often than not rejected by sensible and aware adults.

There *is* no philiosophy that can be "pro-business" and "pro-individual" while systematically undermining the right sof businesses and individuals. The Democrats have discovered that all their confectionery phrases have no lasting power. Now will they revisit first principles to find something more sustaining to the soul?

A lucky break for Republicans

This Boston Globe post-mortem on John Kerry, while not as comprehensive or interesting as the Newsweek masterpiece, is consistent with all else we've heard about the candidate.

Fortunately for Republicans, he was too wrapped up in his own world to take the excellent advice of Paul Begala, who is a bloodthirsty political killing machine, on how to defeat Bush:

Over his head/incompetent," [Begala] wrote. "For the rich/special interests."

"Ideological/stubborn/rigid. Out of touch. Ignores problems. Can only to do one thing at a time. Liar/broken promises. Wrong Priorities. No plan for the future. Divider. You're on your own. Ignores middle class."

Pick one, Begala urged Kerry's staff, and then hammer it until Election Day.

That's exactly right. Rather than issue pontifications that drifted all over the landscape, Kerry needed to pick one theme and hammer it home.

I think "incompetent", "stubborn/rigid", "can only do one thing at a time", and "you're on your own" would have been the four most effective attack tactics for the Democrats. Each takes Bush's perceived strengths -- resoluteness, "tough sherrif", not wobbly -- and turns it against the President.

Lucky break for the Elephants.

November 13, 2004

A Poem for Readers

From Seamus Heaney - The Harvest Bow

As you plaited the harvest bow
You implicated the mellowed silence in you
In wheat that does not rust
But brightens as it tightens twist by twist
Into a knowable corona,
A throwaway love-knot of straw.
Hands that aged round ashplants and cane sticks
And lapped the spurs on a lifetime of game cocks
Harked to their gift and worked with fine intent
Until your fingers moved somnambulant:
I tell and finger it like braille,
Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable,
And if I spy into its golden loops
I see us walk between the railway slopes
Into an evening of long grass and midges,
Blue smoke straight up, old beds and ploughs in hedges,
An auction notice on an outhouse wall--
You with a harvest bow in your lapel,
Me with the fishing rod, already homesick
For the big lift of these evenings, as your stick
Whacking the tips off weeds and bushes
Beats out of time, and beats, but flushes
Nothing: that original townland
Still tongue-tied in the straw tied by your hand.
The end of art is peace
Could be the motto of this frail device
That I have pinned up on our deal dresser--
Like a drawn snare
Slipped lately by the spirit of the corn
Yet burnished by its passage, and still warm.

The Final Word in Election Maps

At, lamentably, CBS News Election Data Center.

Attention Spammers

This will serve as a global notice that I have all the Cialis I need, needed in the past, and will ever need.

Therefore, I must kindly decline your offer for "free" or "cehap" or "effective" Cialis.

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A Social Contract

For Reds & blues...

November 12, 2004

Son of sixty thousand whores

Sounds about right to me.

The dis by Al JAzeera is revealing.

November 10, 2004

Candidates in Drag

Disturbing.

Celebrating Veteran's Day

Seems fair to me!

November 8, 2004

Grill Skill Rap

This is really awful.

Thanks to GMSV.

Deng Xiao Ping: Time's Man of the Year 1978

Stumbled across this terribly revealing article from Time in 1978:

The project is vast, daring, and unique in history. How could there be a precedent for turning 1 billion people so sharply in their course, for leading one-quarter of mankind quickstep out of dogmatic isolation into the late 20th century and the life of the rest of the planet? The People's Republic of China, separated so long from the outer world by an instinctive xenophobia and an admixture of reclusive Maoism, in 1978 began its Great Leap Outward, or what Peking's propagandists call the New Long March. The Chinese, their primitive economy threadbare and their morale exhausted by the years of Mao Tse-tung's disastrous Cultural Revolution, hope to have arrived by the year 2000 at a state of relative modernity, and become a world economic and military power. They may not arrive, or arrive on time, but their setting off is an extraordinary spectacle of national ambition...

To accomplish the journey, Teng and his backers have embarked on what sometimes looks suspiciously like a capitalist road. The new doctrinal slogan might be formulated thus: "Let one hundred business deals blossom, let one hundred foreign investors contend." Although very few Chinese have acquired much individual freedom as part of the new enterprise, they are discarding, without ceremony, much of their old ideological baggage. Gone is the once sacred Maoist principle of national self-reliance and independence from outside resources. Chinese managers have heretically embraced such impure capitalist devices as meritocratic promotions and other special treatment for their best and brightest.

Well, has Deng's vision of "relative modernity" come true by the year 2000? Here's a list that recently made rounds of the Ten Things The Chinese Do Far Better Than We Do.

For the record, the author is spot-on about the airports -- they are gleaming, pristine, beautiful... and empty.

But the more important point of the article is that it shows that history is not impersonal forces and great social sweeps. One man makes the world, and in this case, Deng did single-handedly remake China so that rather than being a more dangerous and cumbersome North Korea, it is modern, modernizing, and a marvel.

November 6, 2004

Etymology

Reader LL pointed me to this Online Etymology Dictionary a while back, but I missed blogging it.

It's great! It returns not just the word you're looking for but related words as well. I.e., "opera" results also include links to Götterdämmerung, soap opera, and Grand Ole Opry.

France under attack in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast Army Kills 8 French Troops, Injures 23

Emulating Minister Villepin, I'm not in a position to say who I want to win this war.

Good Point -- Is this a Mandate?

EconoPundit takes aim:

We all know there are more US voters than any time in history, right? So to judge the Bush 2004 mandate we should look at the winner-loser margin as a percent of total voters, and check it out, this number doesn't play so great...

Sooner or later those on the other side will notice there were only four elections since 1920 with a lower "mandate" number than that generated by our just-finished election.

And one of those four was Bush's own election!

Where Did Their Votes Come From?

Astounding.

One could drive from the Mexican to the Canadian borders without ever passing through a county that voted for Kerry in the election.!

Democrats need to modify their message to appeal to a broader swath of America, because the growth in population (sometimes called the "Roe effect") in the red states is inevitably swinging Presidential contests further and further away from them.

The Tragedy of the Commons and Social Software

Clay shirky elaborates:

Flame wars are not surprising; they are one of the most reliable features of mailing list practice. If you assume a piece of software is for what it does, rather than what its designer's stated goals were, then mailing list software is, among other things, a tool for creating and sustaining heated argument.

Technology companies too often view their work as "producing technology" when in reality it (should) be "producing solutions" for all-too-frail humans.

Rapid development promotes adaptation

Very interesting argument fromAdam Bosworth:

Well this is where the comment about evolution in action comes in. Things that breed rapidly more quickly adopt through natural selection to a changing environment. Services can typically deploy changes every month or even more rapidly because they only have one single configuration on a set of machines whose OS, storage and networking they totally control and which they manage in their data centers. These days Microsoft gives birth to new products at a pace that makes an elephant seem quick, about every 60 months, that means in the time that a service can make 60 adaptions to its customer's needs, Microsoft makes one. It used to be that they shipped every 12 months. Then 18. Then 24. And so on. The creep is driven by the ever increasiongly complexity of features, hardware, os variations, and backward compatibility of the API's so ably designed to lock developers in. They locked the developers in all right. The Microsoft ones. This alone to me has been a compelling argument that when a product can be delivered as a service, it should be.

A similar argument is made in TQM circles that rapid production surfaces problems earlier and more comprehensively so that they are eliminated more quickly.

Look at Southwest Airlines.

During their 30-year dominance period under CEO Kelleher they had the fastest turnaround times of their jets AND the best safety record.

Speed, in itself, is a good for a business.

Make That *Very* *VERY* disturbed

Readers, i've just checked up on the 1,518 keyphrases you used to find Stone in October. Even MORE disturbing than November's (so far).

You are sick, sick people. "Omarosa Sheetrock?"

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Your Google PageRank could be better, Glenn

Glenn,

You're hurting your natural search results by not having a title for each of your blog posts.

For example, type "worst album cover" into Google and you'll find my blog Stone comes out at the top. (or "addicitve trash can paper" or, I'm ashamed to admit "israeli girls kick ass".)

Why?

The title tag is a (very) important component of how Google understands your website.

When you click through to the archives on Stone, you'll see the title of the post way up top there in your IE. But because Instapundit doesn't use title tags, Google doesn't rank your archives as highly.

The net result is that while Instapundit's homepage has a Google PageRank of 7 compared to Stone's 5; Instapundit's archives come in at 0/10 while Stone's weigh in at 2.

Why is this important? In the whole scheme of things it's not, but higher search engine rankings mean more traffic and more notice.

And who knows? If this post on the RX-8 showed up at the top of the rankings, or this one on Lilek's new book did, wouldn't you get more calls from advertisers like Mazda or commissions from sales on Amazon?

Readers, you are disturbing me greatly

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his trial

Here's an odd site called KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

It was advertised on the New York Times' website with a banner ad saying "Today's Testimonial Scorecard: Winner: Remarkably, Prosecution.

The link leads you to a site claiming to be the official press center.

So hey, a few strange things about that:
1. Why is the "official press center" spending money on advertising on NYtimes.com?
2. Why is it a .com and not a .ru if it's offical?

But then it gets stranger. Assuming it's a propaganda site -- I doubt that an official site would have a scorecard that "impartially" declares the prosecution winning -- why then is its text slanted against the prosecution?:

"In June, 2003, the Procuracy General of the Russian Federation launched a series of carefully timed and politically motivated criminal investigations aimed at crushing Russia's wealthiest and most progressive business leader, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose success turning YUKOS into Russia's most efficient and successful business enterprise, and whose vision for Russia's future, is threatening to the growing power of conservative, authoritarian forces within the Kremlin."

So which side is it a shill for? Strange things from Mother Russia...

The Markets Were Right (Or, A Post Subtitled: Proof the Chimp Commanded His Evil Minions to Fix the Vote Total the Night Before the Election)

The Iowa Electronic Markets were remarkably accurate in predicting the results of the election.

The closing prices on November 1, 2004 were:

Bush 51.2 cents
Kerry 48.5 cents

Because the bets pay off $1.00 for the winner and $0.00 for the loser, one would actually expect, in a completely efficient market, to see these prices skewed much more heavily towards the predicted outcome, rather than the vote percentage total. That's because if the traders in the market, as a whole, believed Bush was going to win, even with 50.1% of the vote, then that share is really worth $1 and prices would reflect that.

As a political marketplace, however, traders seem to be voting their political expectations rather than behaving as economic actors.

Also, the prices don't add to exactly $1.00 for two reasons:

1. They don't have to the way this market is set up
2. Even if it was logically required under system rules that they did, factoring in transaction costs would account for the difference.

The actual final vote was:

Bush 51.5
Kerry 48.4

Which is really fantastically amazing. Hours before the exit pollsters were doing their deed, we could have known the outcome by visiting IEM.

Incidentally, the Vote-share market, which is a weirder market that pays based on the percentage of the vote the candidates get, was calling a closer race.

This is a less reliable indicator, however, because:

1. It's a much thinner market, with average daily volume in the hundreds, as compared to thousands in the winner-takes-all market.
2. It's not economically rational to purchase these shares if one has a viewpoint on the race. I.e., if you expect Candidate Blue to get 52% of the vote, the rational trader will buy "Blue" on the Winner-takes-all market in hopes of a $1.00 payoff, rather than paying something close to 52 cents for a... 52 cent payoff in the Vote-share market.

I suppose the fact that the IEM predicted the vote total the night before the election would bear out Treacher's reasons for not voting Bush.

It's Not A Burger at the Corner Bistro

In fact, it's more expensive than a year's worht of burgers at the Corner Bistro.

But the Hedonist Dinner at the Hotel Seiyo Ginza includes wines from 1864. And that's pretty cool.

I've stayed at this hotel, by the way. Like many things Japanese, it seems to simulate a luxury hotel without actually being luxurious. For a Westerner anyway.

November 5, 2004

How Our Soldiers Sleep in Iraq

Heroic tough dawgs these guys are.

Shoulda bought them puts!

Google Nov. 19 200 puts soar this week!

Now, buying puts and calls is a smart, safe way to play the markets if you have a viewpoint. Because like the underlying equity, you get exposure to the price move, but at a percentage of the cost.

The Google 200 puts started life at 10.80 and have tripled since then.

The Scoop on Kerry Campaign

NEWSWEEK's got it:

Managing Teresa. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign, including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual dismissal.

Later came Kerry campaign's post-convention "Sea to Shining Sea" tour: a 3,500-mile bus and train trek that was not a happy trip for Teresa. With each passing day she made less effort to hide her displeasure. Audiences were mystified when Teresa turned her back to them at daylight rallies and wore dark sunglasses and a hat at night (backstage, the candidate's wife complained of migraines and sore eyes). As they reached the climax of the tour, an hourlong "family vacation" hike in the Grand Canyon, the planned happy-family- vacation was disintegrating in plain view. Daughter Vanessa didn't enjoy being a prop, Teresa was complaining of migraines and telling her husband she couldn't walk anymore. The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling his sullen wife and children to show them the magnificent condors flying overhead.

I love inside scoop!

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November 4, 2004

Top Ten John Kerry Excuses

From David Letterman:

10. Voters were in a fever-induced haze because they couldn't get flu shots.

9. Floridians confused by shockingly unconfusing ballots.

8. Maybe it wasn't best idea to begin speeches with "yo mama is so fat" jokes.

7. The endorsement from Osama Bin Laden didn't exactly help him.

6. "Dude--it's the Curse of the Bambino."

5. Should've campaigned more in New Mexico, less in regular Mexico.

4. Turns out voters think it's hot that Cheney has a lesbian daughter.

3. Thought America was ready for a lunatic first lady.

2. Voters seem to really like a weak economy and a badly-run war.

1. Was distracted by late night erotic phone calls from Bill O'Reilly.

Those are pretty good.

November 3, 2004

Our polls were right before they were wrong

Zogby acquits himself poorly:

We feel strongly that our pre-election polls were accurate on virtually every state. Our predictions on many of the key battleground states like Ohio and Florida were within the margin of error. I thought we captured a trend, but apparently that result didn’t materialize.

Ummm... hey John. Your opinion polls predicted, ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION, that Kerry would win by 3.

He lost by 2.5.

That means your polls were inaccurate.

Folks on the left (and Zogby, sadly, has been trending that way since his early, excellent, ground-breaking polls in the 80s) seem to think that favorable data proves their inherent goodness, while unfavorable data is wrong.

The first step to conquering your problem folks, is admitting you have a problem.

Some Cheek

Here's a CBS hack asserting that bloggers blew it.

Why?

Because they liberally quoted the NETWORKS' OWN EXIT POLLS!!

That's called chutzpah where I come from.

Lost Frogger

ps. i'll find my frog

Tradesports and the election

TradeSports crashed last night during the height of the election returns.

The many, many requests for help (via LivePerson, which is actually pretty slick) were met with "the system is provided on an as-is basis".

As a result, I couldn't recommend it.

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A Perfect Summation

Of the qualified victory mood today.

The Venom Left will keep losing the election for their side for a long, long time if they are not finally reined in.

November 2, 2004

Congratulations to US

The son of immigrants casts the first Presidential ballot in space.

What a country!

Venture Capital: A Day In The Life

VentureBlog: Calendar Calisthenics Redux

5:45am – Alarm clock. Pick up Blackberry from night-stand, fire off an email to portfolio company CEO to demonstrate “round-the-clock” vigilance. Go back to sleep.
8:30am – Wake up. Decide whether to have breakfast in the kitchen, dining room, sunroom, veranda, or gazebo. Have “breakfast meeting” with Rex and Fido.

9:45am – Drop child off at nursery school. Banter with child’s teacher. Haha, that teacher doesn’t make in a year what I spent in Lanai over New Year’s. Wow. I haven’t been to Hawaii in three months. Call assistant, re: technology conferences in Hawaii.

10:30am – Arrive at office, remark loudly that these breakfast meetings are killing you. It’s been ‘go, go, go’ all year. The pace is killing you. Makes you wish it was 2002 again.

10:45am – Call CEO of semi-conductor portfolio company.....

Executive Recruiters and the Executive

At my other company, TheLadders.com which specializes in $100K+ jobs direct from Employers and Executive Recruiters, we asked folks if they searched through job listings at work.

About half said yes.

In interviews, I've been asked what should a company do about this?

I've said: make your work environment someplace that people don't want to leave.

MSN Blogger Scobleizer
agrees with me, but in a different context. He points out, rightly:

I think the right way to deal with this is make your work environment great. If your employees are happy and in jobs that are great, they'll be unlikely to be swayed by recruiter's calls.

On the other hand, if you don't treat your employees well, be careful. Funny enough, I had a call from an executive at another company a few months back. He said he was considering taking a job at Microsoft because his current employer didn't let him blog.

...Why try to hold your employees back from expanding their careers?..

Along these lines, Adam Barr, a Microsoft employee, gave me a little heck in my blog comments, for pointing out that Google is opening a local office up here. He was scared that Microsoft employees would start jumping ship.

I say that's hogwash. First of all, I start with the assumption that Microsoft employees are smart. If they are smart, they already knew that Google was hiring (heck, their fun recruiting engineering challenges have been emailed around here a lot lately -- we have fun solving the puzzles you see on billboards and in tech magazines. Of course we email those around to each other).

Second, if you aren't smart and only find out that there's competitors who are looking to hire Microsoft workers by reading my blog, well, then, I don't want them working at Microsoft anyway.

And I think that's exactly right.

By the way, if your employer doesn't let you blog, then come visit us by clicking the link below:

TheLadders.com

Sun Tzu Was A Sissy

So says Bing:

Several thousand years ago in China, or what was destined to be China, there lived a guy named Sun Tzu. Like Niccolo Machiavelli and Walt Rostow and Paul Wolfowitz, he didn't run the world, he just advised those who did. His legend grew from one generation of murderous warlords to the next, until he became more famous than they did, possibly because his name was easier to remember, but also because writers have the last word.

Sun Tzu wrote about War. How to make it. How to win it. How to get others to die in it instead of you. This last was particularly popular with warlords back then and remains so to this day with their contemporary counterparts in both the military and the executive suites.

Sun Tzu wrote a bunch of extremely poetic and deep stuff that somebody must have understood, because it was handed lovingly down over the years to those who kill people for a living and is now taught at West Point and sold, in one form or another, in airport bookstores to people in charge of marketing and advertising and even human resources. Why Sun Tzu is appealing to people is a mystery, because his stuff is about as easy to understand as one of those instruction manuals they give you when you buy any product from Eastern Europe. Let me give you an example...

Read the whole thing.

Executive Jobs in Technology

At my other company, executive job site TheLadders.com, we send over 3,000 all-new jobs to our 180,000 subscribers each week. As a result, we see a lot of comments on the interview and hiring process all around the world and the world wide web.

I'd like to say that sentiments like Russell Beattie's negative views on taking the Google interview were unqiue, but they're not.

Over and over again we hear of arrogance, mishandling, and rudeness in the interview process. And then when that is cleared away, the underlying job is ill-defined, poorly resourced, and incompetently managed.

Like Google's G-mail announcement flop, and their IPO screw-up (I mean, how much dough did they really leave on the table? $1 billion? $2 billion? What does it take for Schmidt to get fired over there?), their hiring process is a symptom of amateurs running the show.

The Anti-Israeli Party

Finally! My tribesmen prove their lack of bias by voting against their own interests!

November 1, 2004

DoubleClick for sale

After a long reign as New York's top tech native, DoubleClick's up for sale.

The market hasn't recognized the company's value as the share price has been going sideways for 4 years, despite achieving record profitability in the most recent quarter.