Interesting contest in the famous Lifehacker blog: Share your primary operating system.

Here are the results for Lifehackers’s readers: does it mean that MS did a good job after years of failure (Vista!) in the OS space?

Share your thoughts and your preferences!

PierG

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Very funny and interesting: one of the artists I love (Bruce Springsteen, the Boss) cited as a ‘case study’ in one of the publishers I love (Harvard Business School Publishing)!!

Read Three Reasons Why Bruce is the Best Boss in Stew Friedman blog!

Our turbulent world — more networked than hierarchical, more flexible than standardized — demands leaders like Springsteen, who generate loyalty and commitment not so much with their use of positional power and formal authority, but with their authenticity, their integrity, and their creativity.

Bruuuuuuuuuuce!!!!!!

PierG

Thank you to the WordPress.com guys, there is now a mobile version of PierG blog: just going to the usual PierG.WordPress.com site you will se the mobile version.

Here it is a snapshot from my iPhone:

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Interesting video: fake? Need an update?

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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?
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In adopting IT technologies, IT managers and companies tend to have two kind of strategies.

There are the Late Adopters: they resist resist and resist. They touch their system the less than is possible: what’s stable don’t have to be touched. Less migrations, less change, more continuity to end users.

There are the Early Adopters: they migrate to the new technology ASAP. They don’t want to cope with tails of old technologies, they might be ‘geeks’, they might have demanding users and they prefer to cope with migrations than with service packs or back compatibility. More migrations, more change, more risk, less continuity, more features.

What’s the best approach for you? Are you an early or late adopter?

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?

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When this economic downturn will pass, when many companies in the world will be spoiled by manager acting like crazy on the altar of saving, when the know how of companies will be dispelled for the head count reduction … we will ask: and now?

I don’t know what the treatment will be (or better I might know but I need to invoice if you want the answer )  but I know that rewarding executives and top manager on a quarter basis is not necessarily good.

Focusing only on short term results is not the way we manage our families: we know that we have to act to eat now BUT we know that we have to prepare our retirement AND to grant a decent future to our children AND …

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

Now and then I have a look at the search terms that link to this blog.

Here is the list of top search terms for last 365 days: curious (for me ) how at second place there is my name.

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