Welcome, Mike Nichols
Please welcome Mike Nichols to Zertis Technologies. Mike is an outstanding software architect and developer with broad experience in web applications requiring web accessibility standards, event-driven message based architecture design, event sourcing, NoSQL, and object-relational mappers implementations. He’s also well versed in C#, SQL, Javascript, CSS, Ruby among other technical skills. He’s also contributed to numerous popular .Net open source projects including Castle’s Monorail MVC implementation and Windsor Inversion...
read moreSteve Jobs’s Best Quotes
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are. So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most...
read moreGoal Setting
This morning, I was at a roundtable with some other business people I truly respect and enjoy discussing the challenges of business and life in general with and we were discussing goal setting. I mentioned to them that at Zertis, we focus less on the granular details of setting concrete goals in terms of numbers. I’m worried it makes us dollar focused, instead of culture focused. We care more about: Making sure we hire the right people and acquire the right clients than just meeting some quarterly figures. Hiring smart, dedicated...
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