Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Certifications

04Jul08

By art_as_anna
Personally, I think that having a certification (in the IT space) is usually a good sign of commitment and shows a great tension to personal improvement … and often nothing more.
Moreover I don’t think is usually a real preference in evaluating a potential candidate: it doesn’t add a decisive contribution to the real [...]


By The Pizza Review
Last Saturday, I was out for a Pizza with some old friends of mine.
The waiter had a beautiful small computer that she used to take orders: very professional, very effective and efficient .. and probably cool for techies
PierG <<I’ll have a Pizza with Wurstel BUT with not much mozzarella>>
Waiter <<Not [...]


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal
Henry Ford

by pupismyname

I’ve just read this quote in this post: The Ultimate Guide to Motivation - How to Achieve Any Goal .
The more I study, learn and practice, the more I think that keeping the focus is everything! Having a [...]


By odysseus

Let me suggest a very good post Obama and the Rise of Asymmetrical Competition by Umair Haque.
Umar makes an interesting comparison between the US Democratic nomination and innovative strategies of well known ‘new’ brands like Google. In both these scenarios there are big, powerful, rich, consolidated players challenged by newcomers with a different DNA.

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 By jurvetson
If you Google “decision making”, you get tons of results: in the first page, except the very first entry (that’s wikipedia ), there is a list of techniques, tools, strategies to achieve good decisions.
These techniques are surely useful and I think AN AVERAGE WELL-TIMED DECISION is by far better then a PERFECT LATE [...]


Let me suggest a very good blog about IT called Having IT Your Way that you can read in the Harvard Business Publishing site.
Here is what Susan Cramm writes on her first post:
I’ve decided to step out again - this time by sharing the secrets of how IT works and helping you, the business leader, [...]


Technorati Tags: Business,Personal,Productivity,NLP

The Four Hour Workweek, the book by Timothy Ferriss, is getting very positive and very negative feedback. You can like it or not, but a lot has been said about it … and this means he was able to touch the right nerve.
I’ve just read a post called What I hate about [...]


Avoid Waste

05Jun08

by grahambones
Supplier: <<PierG, for this time, as you are in a hurry, we have sent you a couple of our best designer. They will analyze the stuff with your business experts, will design / code / test the app and deploy a great product in a really short time frame. Are you happy??>>
PierG: <<Sure. But [...]


By AMagill, Some rights reserved
As you know, if you read this blog, few days ago we run into a replacement of all keys that are used for automatic coffee machines or other automatic dispensers.
A pretty easy task: you just need to return your key, and the give back a new one with the correct [...]


If you are in the Project Management business (and if you are a boss, YOU ARE) there is a resource you can exploit for a better job: the Herding Cats blog.
In his last post, A Simple Way to Put PMBOK to Work, Glen Alleman summarize part of the famous PMBOK in a set of questions [...]