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In our day-to-day business lives, we have to handle disappointment, anger, frustration, and, yes, even flaming emails. Since work can take up a good part of our daily lives, we can run the gamut of emotions in the work place. On our best days, we can step back and choose not to react. We can
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6 Ways to Thrive in Challenging

Challenging projects. We’ve all had to deal with at least one. Maybe every project is challenging in its own way. Of course, the nature of the challenge defines how to best address problems and move forward, but there are some basic truths that can be applied to all projects. Focus on goals. When facing an
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7 Ways a COE Can Tame the Business Beast

Sometimes business is a beast. Sometimes you have too many things to manage at once. Sometimes there are not enough hands, eyes, or knowledge to do everything that needs to be done, making success harder to accomplish and pushing stress levels to the maximum. If you are tired of trying to keep all the plates
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10,000 Hours to Excellence

If you haven’t heard about the 10,000 hour rule, then you should hear about it now. The concept came from research performed by Anders Ericsson, which had as its goal to figure out what actually makes a someone an expert. Malcolm Gladwell expanded on this study in his book, Outliers, wherein he presents the finding
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Disruptors vs. Evangelists – Who’s Tops? |

“Disruptors” and “disruption” have become recent buzzwords in the tech industry. You are either doing it or protecting yourself from it. The popularity of the term is beginning to replace evangelism and evangelists, but you will still see them out there. Both concepts and roles are associated with change and innovation, but they do not
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How to be a Triple Threat in Business

How to be a Triple Threat in Business Sing! Dance! Act! This is the Hollywood definition of a triple threat, but what about the business definition?
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O Legacy, How do I Love Thee? Your BPM is ready!

O Legacy, How do I Love Thee? Let me Improve You with a BPM. Have you ever tried to build a new solution on top of a legacy system? An “undocumented, patched a thousand times, two people in the world know how to keep it running, backed up with reel to reel tape, and interfaced
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The Problem with the Happy Path | TechCORE MSS

Our work should matter. It should mean something not only to ourselves, but also to the people we help with the work we do. If you’ve ever participated in an agile project, you’re likely well versed in the concept of the “happy path.” In case you haven’t been exposed to the term before, the happy
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When You Know Better, Do Better

Our work should matter. It should mean something not only to ourselves, but also to the people we help with the work we do. In the IT world, it can seem so disconnected between conceiving of projects and delivering to end users (especially if we only ever deal with the beginning stages) that it’s easy
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