Category: Advice
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With Friends Like These…
There is no little doubt in my mind that nothing brings out the worst in people better than a contentious election campaign. In Canada this usually means six to ten weeks of slight animosity. In the United States – a country where the presidency holds much wider global implications – it is often a two…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, Part III
In the first article of this series, Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, I explained a bit of my own history, and why I was writing these articles. The actual advice is split into sixteen points, the first eight were listed in my next article, Advice for IT Pros Planning to…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, Part II
In my last article (Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies) I outlined the scenario, and gave some of the history of how I got to where I am today. If you don’t know, I am a Senior IT Consultant and Courseware Specialist with SWMI Consulting Group, as well as a Virtual…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to run their Own Companies
Earlier this month one of the IT Professionals who attended a couple of my sessions over the past few years e-mailed me and told me he had ‘written my last letter of resignation, and plan to work for myself from now on.’ It is a bold and brave decision, one that I made several years…
The World According to Mitch 