- built a Seek email extractor to deal with recruiters who often post 'fake jobs'. Download it here:
- description is as follows:
# If you don't already know a lot of job boards have 'fake jobs'. These
# 'fake jobs' are posted by recruiters who are looking to increase the
# size of their candidate databases. To get around this particular
# problem I built this script. Just run with the correct parameters
# to extract relevant email addresses so that you can bulk email them.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program (and I didn't have
# access to the original server while I was cleaning this up it may
# be VERY buggy). Please test prior to deployment in a production
# environment.
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- "It has been said that to one who is good, the whole world becomes good. This is true so far as the individual is concerned. But goodness becomes dynamic only when it is practised in the face of evil. If you return good for good only, it is a bargain and carries no merit, but if you return good for evil, it becomes a redeeming force. The evil ceases before it and it goes on gathering volume and momentum like a snow-ball till it becomes irresistible." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"There is no sense in trying to do anything unless you give it your maximum effort. You may not succeed but at least the dedication and effort and interest should be there." -- John F. Kennedy (JFK)
"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose." -- G. K. Nielson
"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do." -- John R. Amos
"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I don't have it in the beginning." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him -- Swami Chinmayananda.
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein.
"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." -- Albert Einstein.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts bcome your words, Your words become your action, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, You values become your destiny" - Mahatma Gandhi
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. - Albert Einstein.
"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions." - Albert Einstein.
"I learned much about my academic colleagues. They fell into three categories. The first, and by far the most numerous, wanted only to be left alone to get on with their own work. But they were like hermit crabs: if you were foolish enough to tread on them, they nipped painfully. The second were intelligent and public-spirited, understood the problems and were positively helpful in solving them. Finally there was a tiny but inescapable minority of menacing nuisances who expressed their egos by causing trouble. The proble was how to avoid antagonizing the first group, to enlist the support of the second and to neutralize the third." Sir Michael Howard, Regis Professor of Modern History, Oxford (source: Randy H. Katz, UC Berkley website).
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." -- Thomas A. Edison
- I say to CxOs your transformation won't change culture unless you personally change. What does that look like and feel like? Very few companies recognise culture isn't a problem with people but you as a leader. That's not saying people are bad - I spoke to the CEO of a very large bank a couple of weeks ago and he said we want to pick two or three digital initiatives and make a team and drive success with resources behind the projects. I said no, you're a bank, people are afraid to do the wrong thing and it will be watered down.
Instead, pick the people who lead your initiatives and say "I want to see 10 proof of concepts in 90 days. We'll kill nine of them. Then let's see another 10 in 90 days, maybe some out to demo stage, but with the learnings built-in from the first 10." This tells the organisation it's ok to fail and to set up a structure where it's not a big high-stakes thing.
Leaders need to change, but they don't have to go through a personal epiphany and be a different person, but change what you ask for and accept failure and drive experimentation - this will drive your culture. Instead of saying "come back with two projects" say "come back with 10 and we will kill most of these" is a small tweak how you to talk to the organisation but it's one example of the 100 things you have to do to get a cultural change to happen.
This is more effective than hiring a consultant to convince people they should be willing to take risks. You don't change culture directly, but you do things that start to get culture change.
The writer attended Red Hat Summit 2018 as a guest of the company.
