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Very interesting video from the folks at RSA Animate showing that – as many people will know – throwing more money at a person does not usually illicit a higher level of performance. There are plenty of other factors at play. Check out the video below. It’s 11 minutes long, but well worth a watch especially [...] 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 [...] An experience I had today reminded me of a recent post that was doing the rounds entitled ‘50 things your customers wish you knew‘ You’d like to hope that a list such as this was simple common sense and you wouldn’t have to spell it out: unfortunately it isn’t. And you do. (warning, this story contains no [...] should the CIO report to the CFO? Yes
View Results Loading … If you think ‘yes’, then why? If ‘no’ then firstly good on you (in my humble opinion), but why do you think not? Any and all thoughts most welcome. I’ll give you my lengthier explanation of why I think [...] 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 [...] |
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