2007-09-04 01:15 Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!
Just some random events happening before the Company Meeting this Thursday ( BEWARE Seattle drivers! Stay away from Safeco field! ). Are you, like, LisaB's BFF Well, no. I think LisaB is losing momentum and getting caught up in a cult-of-personality not of her making ( what will we have this year Orange berets ). But she certainly is poised to flip the momentum she has built up and have big impact - as far as she can as the HR head - to the everyday Microsoftie. Some of the items not shared in t …
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2007-09-01 17:13 Links for Saturday, September 1, 2007
Business Week: Q&A with Microsoft's Lisa Brummel - " It all starts in the Workplace Lab, a kind of parade of homes for offices where "Microserfs" can pick and choose their new digs. The lab also functions as a kind of workplace Freud; employees are divided into four worker types: providers (the godfathers of work groups), travelers (the types who work anywhere but work), concentrators (head-down, always-at-work types), and orchestrators (the company's natural diplomats). " Steve Barr: Announcing …
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2007-08-31 04:11 Brummel! Brummel! Brummel!
Wow, just in time to go into next week's Company Meeting with blushingly good PR. Much better than two years ago! From the upcoming BusinessWeek magazine: (1) How To Make A Microserf Smile - profile on Ms. Brummel with some background about her contributions to HR since being appointed. Interesting snippet: Nothing got people buzzing more than Brummel's overhaul of the performance review. Employees dreaded Microsoft's ranking system for all the usual reasons: It pitted co-workers against one ano …
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2007-08-17 07:01 Alive and well, but more grown up
So I was watching that video about the demolition of building 100 at Microsoft. You may have seen it if you work for Microsoft.... Anyway, they talked about all of the new buildings that were coming, and they showed all of the graffiti and damage that employees were inflicting on the building since it was going to be destroyed. Good clean family fun. There was this one part with Lisa Brummel, and her quote was something like this (in part): When groups can come and do crazy, zany things to celeb …
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2007-08-07 00:00 Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex
Quite a few SharePoint customers have asked about how to implement blogs internally within their companies as an open, direct, and efficient communication channel for executives to get feedback from employees. One often requested feature that SharePoint does not provide out-of-the-box is support for anonymous comments when a SharePoint blog site uses Integrated Windows Authentication and hence automatically signs the visitor in, which is the typical configuration within an intranet environment. …
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2007-08-06 15:08 Microsoft Internships not just to build your resume!
By: Anne Cheng Our internships are known as great places to get œreal work. Whether you are coding/testing/designing, the opportunity to make an impact is there. But what do our interns do after they log off I m going to share with you a couple of great intern events that have been organized by our Intern Program Manager and Coordinator this summer that allows our interns to explore the different groups and network across our company. Intern Product Fair/Steve Ballmer event: Last week, I …
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2007-07-19 16:35 Back Again
Finally, agilemanagement.net is back on line. Whew! It was bad being down - especially during the Agile 2006 conference. I'd like to thank everyone who emailed or called me personally on my cell phone to advise me that the site was down. Don't worry I haven't given up. Tonight is the last night of the conference in Minneapolis and I will be posting new material here in the next few days. I'm running behind of writing my Lisa Brummel interview but it should be ready next week.
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2007-07-11 16:53 Microsoft bosses disclosing stock holdings
Execs are filing their end of fiscal year stock holding reports. The reports to the SEC disclose how much Microsoft stock they hold. Today's batch: Kevin Johnson : 622,612 shares Brad Smith : 255,299 shares Lisa Brummel : 159,382 shares plus 614 in a 401(k) Frank Brod : 55,184 shares
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2007-05-17 05:37 Town Hall Transparency
It can be difficult to see things right in front of you if they are transparent or designed to show you some other object. Case in point, yesterday's Microsoft Town Hall with Chris "Let me buy you breakfast to explain why the market isn't giving us a better P/E ratio " Liddel, Steve "Windows Mobile is on a rocket sled of growth and the iPhone is irrelevant " Ballmer and Lisa " Not earning enough I guess we're not doing a good job of telling you how much you really earn." Brummel. Watching those …
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