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The Value Of Our Help

Posted by Mike Ramm in Friday, August 22nd 2008   
Topics: Featured Articles, Life, Personal    Tags: appreciation, drowning, gratitude, gratuitous help, help
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You surely have helped someone at some time. And surely somebody has helped you. But how important is the help that you gave in your eyes today? And how important is the help that you received today? Rajesh Setty raises these questions in his blog and explains that there is a research which shows that [...]

The Most Miserable Countries

Posted by Mike Ramm in Tuesday, August 12th 2008   
Topics: Featured Articles, Life, National culture    Tags: former socialist block, happiness, happy people, nostalgy, unhappy people
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I found recently a post in Donald Trump’s blog called The World’s Happiest Nations where he provides the results from a research done at the University of Michigan. For me it is not a surprise that among the happiest nations are ones that have a high level of welfare. But one would never predict that [...]

Seven Personal Development Books – Free!

Posted by Mike Ramm in Monday, June 30th 2008   
Topics: Life, Links, Relationships    Tags: ebooks, free books, personal development
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Reading Steve Olson’s blog this morning I found this article about a new personal development blog called Free Personal Development Material. It is a place full of information – among the very interesting blog posts you can find a lot of free PDF ebooks, audio books, podcasts, videos and many other forms. I was really [...]

The Best Employee Reward – Cash or Gift?

Posted by Mike Ramm in Wednesday, May 28th 2008   
Topics: Featured Articles, Management, National culture, Work    Tags: cash, gift, hygiene factor, loyalty, money, motivation, reward, salary
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Which is the best form of motivation – cash or gift?

Persistence

Posted by Mike Ramm in Thursday, March 20th 2008   
Topics: Featured Articles, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Words    Tags: faith, hope, permanent goal, persistence, Seth Godin, strength
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I see I haven’t been writing in this blog for quite a long time. The last couple of months was too heavy for me. I had a lot of work to do but it is not what made me so tired. I am not afraid of work especially when I do it with passion. I [...]

New Project Management Blog Launched – PM Stories

Posted by Mike Ramm in Tuesday, January 1st 2008   
Topics: Blogging, Links, Management    Tags: blog, business analysis, PM Stories, Project Management, software development
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With the beginning of the New Year I decided to separate my writings on Software Engineering and Project Management in another blog where other people can also publish their thoughts, ideas and comments. I hope that the new blog – PM Stories – will be a good place of information for many people who are [...]

7 Great Life Lessons

Posted by Mike Ramm in Saturday, October 13th 2007   
Topics: Business, Featured Articles, Life, Wisdom    Tags: experience, failure, hesitation, lessons, success, teamwork, Wisdom
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John Wesley of Pick the Brain published recently an article called 7 Life Lessons I Learned Playing Halo where he gives seven great advices that can change your life significantly and for better. I found them very inspiring maybe because I’ve learned most of them the hard way trying to break walls with my head. [...]

My Company’s Website Launched

Posted by Mike Ramm in Monday, October 1st 2007   
Topics: Business, Links    Tags: coaching, consulting, professional education, professional training, Project Management, RammSoft, software development
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Finally, I got the time to launch the official website of my own company – RammSoft. The site is still under development and I am going to add more articles and static pages to describe all the services I and my colleagues provide so keep looking at it and check for news. The great news [...]

Recommended Readings: Computer Ergonomics

Posted by Mike Ramm in Tuesday, September 18th 2007   
Topics: Links, Personal, Work    Tags: aching back, comfortable workplace, computer egronomics
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I read recently Jeff Atwood’s post on Computer Workstation Ergonomics and I realized that I really didn’t know a lot of things that were important for my health. For the last couple of months I started working at home and I work the worst possible way – I sit in my bed holding with my [...]

Successful And Outstanding Blogger

Posted by Mike Ramm in Saturday, September 8th 2007   
Topics: Blogging, Personal    Tags: Liz Strauss, SOB, Successful and Outstanding Blogger
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I’ve been on a long vacation for the last three weeks and I wasn’t able to actively write in my blog. Nevertheless, it didn’t hinder Liz Strauss to see some special qualities in me and to award me with her badge of achievement and the title Successful and Outstanding Blogger. I am really flattered. Liz [...]

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