ZERTIS http://zertis.net Software Tailored for Your Business Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Welcome, Mike Nichols http://zertis.net/general/494/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=494 http://zertis.net/general/494/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:11:45 +0000 sotulana http://zertis.net/?p=494
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 of Control container.
He’s a maintainer of lightweight open source tools including jQuery plugins and object-object mapping support.

You can read some of his work on his blog: http://devlicio.us/blogs/mike_nichols/default.aspx
Check out his work on GitHub here: https://github.com/mnichols

Once again, welcome Mike. Glad to have you on the team.

Shegun Otulana

]]> http://zertis.net/general/494/feed/ 7 Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes http://zertis.net/business/steve-jobss-best-quotes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=steve-jobss-best-quotes http://zertis.net/business/steve-jobss-best-quotes/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:21:45 +0000 sotulana http://zertis.net/?p=469 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 rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

—Steve Jobs.

Sourced from Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes

]]> http://zertis.net/business/steve-jobss-best-quotes/feed/ 4 Goal Setting http://zertis.net/general/goal-setting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=goal-setting http://zertis.net/general/goal-setting/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:26:41 +0000 sotulana http://zertis.net/?p=472 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 people who are passionate about what they do.
  • Always doing the right thing, first by the team and by our customers.
  • Creating an atmosphere that is fun, but intellectually engaging.
  • Finding sustainable ways to grow our revenues with good profit margins.
  • Taking reasonable risks.
Of course in my personal life, I have goals and I have people I share those goals with to hold me accountable, so I don’t consider goals bad. I just wonder about the balance between the grand vision and overly focusing on the little goals that help achieve it. I fear focusing on those goals sometimes makes it hard to pivot when necessary.
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