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A friend of mine told me yesterday an interesting concept: “PierG, IT services and people are like a screwdriver, when the users think it is not working they change it”
Are you a screwdriver?
PierG
15 years ago I was kidding saying that the future would have been: keyboard with the hands and mouse with the feet. The guys from 10/GUI have a better idea: have a look at this amazing video:
From FlowinData post: Is 10/GUI the Future Replacement of the Mouse and Keyboard?
PierG
When I see good programmers I don’t see engineers, I see chefs: science and experience dressed with (a lot of) art.
That’s not very good for managers as it’s hard to replicate but it’s so fascinating!!
PierG
Here are books just arrived.
I want to read them NOW !!!!
PierG
I’ve just subscribed to Wired Italy: I think t’s an interesting magazine.
Look also at the site http://www.wired.it, they have an interesting tool to represent all content about wired in blogs, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.
PierG
From MIT site:
Institute Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in science and engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages. Liskov’s achievements underpin virtually every modern computing-related convenience in people’s daily lives.
PierG
Here is what you could see in Twitter few days ago:
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Feb. 24 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Preliminary indications are that the fairing on the Taurus XL launch vehicle failed to separate. The fairing is a clamshell structure that encapsulates the satellite as it travels through the atmosphere.
The spacecraft did not reach orbit and likely landed in the ocean near Antarctica, said John Brunschwyler, the program manager for the Taurus XL.
It seems like managing complexity, even with enough resources and with mature projects (NASA has been sending satellites to orbit from quite a long time), it’s not a piece of cake: yes … sometimes IT IS rocket science 
PierG
I was talking with a friend, few days ago, about management styles.
We both were agreeing on some of the principles you can read in many (recent) books from Druker’s Effective Executive to Good to Great. Executives / Managers / Companyes, who want to lead in their business, have to focus on people, empower best performers, be humble, avoid command and control, respect people, lead by examples …
Moreover we noticed that (many?) successful (Italian) executives are not exactly a reference on those principles: they are arrogant, delegate just if obliged, tough with people, unrespectful … and very firm and pushy.
So if the first is better, why the second is more spread?
PierG
Tony Robbins has a blog: check it out the first post Anthony Robbins Change Your Life Now
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