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Author Archives: brendansterne
Google’s Project Oxygen
Today slate had an excellent article on Google’s management: The Happiness Machine: How Google became such a great place to work. One thing they mention is Project Oxygen, a data-analytics based approach to examining the management factors that improve performance. … Continue reading
New Year Resolution: One Painful Task Each Day
I’m not usually one for New Year Resolutions – mostly because I’m happy to try out new resolutions (and build new habits) any time of the year. But the timing for my lastest resolution happens to be now, so I’m … Continue reading
Coursera and Credentialing
Earlier I wrote that the problem with online education is credentialing. It looks like Coursera is starting to tackle issue: Coursera recently announced another route to help students earn credit for its courses — and produce revenue. The company has … Continue reading
Achieving Your Way to Mediocrity
(Photo: PublicDomainPictures) I’ve been thinking about goal setting recently. Bazaarvoice is in the process of rolling out a goal process – a variation of Management By Objectives (MBO) and Objectives and Key Results (OKR). One dilemma that always seems to … Continue reading
Download / Scrape Salesforce Reports in 4 lines of Python
Python Code: import requests l = requests.get(“https://login.salesforce.com/?un=USERNAME&pw=PASSWORD”) d = requests.get(“https://na3.salesforce.com/REPORT_ID?view=d&snip&export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv”,cookies=l.cookies) print d.content References: http://sfdc-heretic.warped-minds.com/2006/04/10/progmatic-access-to-salesforcecom-reports/ http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#cookies http://www.techsmog.com/index.php/2011/02/08/parsing-real-time-salesforce-com-reports-via-perlcgi-html-tables/
A review of “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees”, by Frederick Herzberg
This is the second article in the volume “On Managing People” in Harvard Business Review’s collection of Must Reads. Frederick Herzberg This article was originally published in 1968. Herzberg begins by examining the classic Kick In The Ass (KITA) as … Continue reading
A review of “Leadership That Gets Results”, by Daniel Goleman
As a sort of poor-man’s MBA I’m planning to work my way through Harvard Business Review’s “HBR’s Must Reads”, a 6-volume collection of curated articles on business. Since I’m relatively new to management and find myself building and managing a … Continue reading
That’s the word! Credentialing.
I love it when I discover a new term for something that’s floating around in my head. Today it’s credentialing. Phase 1 of the online learning revolution is all about self-guided learning. There are tons of resources out there to … Continue reading
I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
Hooray! I can now sync the highlights that I make in books from my Kindle Fire. I just finished “I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59″ by Douglas Edwards. Prior to reading this book I didn’t really … Continue reading
6 Tips for Making the Most of a Tech Conference
At Bazaarvoice it’s policy that we send our developers to at least one major tech conference of their choice each year. Since we’re based in Austin TX, that usually means flying across the country. The costs (flights, hotel, transport, food) … Continue reading
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