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Re: Bell Canada outage or service down? Current problems and outages

Chris Smith — Thu, 19 May 2022 18:05:43 -0000

0.25 Mbs. Normal is 50. 200 times slower than normal. Please fix. It's been days...

Re: Product Management Survey and Work | Life results! - Red Canary

Chris Smith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:18:34 -0000

I wonder if using the median salary would be more meaningful than using the average. The distribution may be skewed over the range so that a few very high salaries distort the picture. The intent of using average or arithmetic mean is to indicate what is typical. If the population is skewed, median is a better indicator of the "typical" salary than "average" .

Re: What Workopolis, Casinos and Stock Markets have in Common - Red Canary

Chris Smith — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:54:24 -0000

My experience is that any decent company referral program will fill >50% of openings with high quality hires. Who would want to add someone to their team who wasn't great? For the remainder, a good headhunter who specializes in your industry and discipline is well worth it. Workopolis and the like generate larger numbers of potential candidates that then have to be sifted through with a very low yield of strong candidates.

Re: Hard Realities for Soft(ware) Companies - Red Canary

Chris Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:38:59 -0000

It is certainly difficult to assess someone's leadership if they are only there for 12-18 months. They themselves may miss some important lessons if they aren't there to see the consequences of some of their longer-term decisions or lack of decisions.

Re: Hard Realities for Soft(ware) Companies - Red Canary

Chris Smith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:30:39 -0000

I agree with your comments Mario. Implicit in your commentary is that this also applies to the leadership in a company. Tough times really test leadership skills and some in top management may not be up to it. Less-than-strong leadership in tough times really cripples an organization... not only are these expensive players, but they can cause a lot of collateral effects. So now, more than ever, it's important to weed out the less strong leaders and either bringing in better talent, or consolidate under a smaller core of strong leaders.