Recently, I finished A Terrible Glory . It's a pretty good book chronicling Custer's destruction at Little Bighorn at the hands of the Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull. When I started the book, I didn't expect to get a post out of it. After all, the...

I've often wondered what makes an effective leader. While I certainly haven't completely figured it out, I have noticed one trait that seems essential. Great leaders aren't necessarily the people who make the right decisions, rather great leaders are...

For those of you who might be interested in knowing more about what I work on, here's a link to my manager talking about and demonstrating Essential Business Server. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Essential-Business-Server-EBS-demo-with-Bjorn/

I'm not much of a UI guy. I've spent my entire time at Microsoft working on servers of one sort or another. I learned a ton about UI design back when I was on the Terminal Services team helping out the http://www.mesh.com guys on their live remote desktop...

One author I've been reading lately is Atul Gawande. I recently finished Complications and before too long I expect to start Better . Atul Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker. Just like other staff writers like Malcolm Gladwell you find that...