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Gordon Ramsay’s certainly had his fair share of troubles recently and I’m sure many of his own restaurants have been going through some of the issues highlighted in his ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ series. If you don’t mind a weeks worth of swearing in one shot I find each episode good ‘train-wreck TV’ viewing. If you boil each episode [...] Over the years (from about the time that the dinosaurs ruled the Earth) I’ve been involved in developing and shipping many different products: from hardware to software, on, offline, mobile and most things in-between. It struck me though that whilst the language may differ, the challenges for each were mostly common. Given that every day is a [...] Interesting discussion over at Mark Suster’s blog around the phrase ‘fail fast’. Mark’s conjecture is that the phrase has been abused to the point where it simply means ‘keep doing anything and everything, spending as much of your investments as quickly as you can, until you happen to hit on the right thing’. My thoughts on [...] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an all-hands email to staff today outlining his vision for Microsoft’s Cloud strategy. As Ballmer notes, Microsoft has been making investments in Cloud computing (by a few other names) for well over a decade now, but he reiterates the need for a commitment to move at an appropriate speed (i.e quickly) [...] Here are some questions for you. See if you can recognise any of these in either yourself or your organisation. If you can, what are you doing about answering them? - Why do we waste so much time in our working lives undertaking activities that we’ve convinced ourselves are a worthwhile use of time (and I’m not [...] Having sat through more than my fair-share of corporate presentations, it always strikes me how many times we see the same stock phrases repeated as if they were some sort of religious mantra or contractual inclusion. See how many of the following you can recognize: - Our people are our greatest asset - Customer service is our #1 [...] Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg spoke this week at Webstock in New Zealand. The following are his top ten tips for web entrepreneurs. Simple, sensible advice. [hat tip to Read Write Web for the story]. 1: Just Build It: You don’t need anyone’s approval and in fact, you probably won’t get it, so don’t [...] Interesting interview with Cristóbal Conde, president and C.E.O. of SunGard in the New York times online. In it, Conde talks about his views on micro-managing and trying to keep the lines of communication open (and scalable) across the organisation. I particularly liked this point, which tallied nicely with part of my ‘seven habits‘ post (shameless plug [...] |
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