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Particularly for knowledge centric organizations:
"For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way."

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"...and the beginning of understanding something fundamental to make future Falls less catastrophic: that people are the best puzzles you’ll never solve"

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Interesting article on commoditization. Microsoft did it pretty well in the PC era, while Sun shot itself in the foot by trying to commoditize both hardware & software. Wonder what happens in the mobile computing (smartphone\tablet\netbook) era. Will the app marketplaces do the trick?

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Includes some gems of laws:
Weinberg’s Law of Metrics: “That which gets measured gets fudged.”
The Metric Law of 90s: “The first 90 percent of a development project takes 90 percent of the schedule. The remaining 10 percent of the project takes the other

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Bruce F. Webster's personal experience on how well a Cravath system could work, & some possible pitfalls on the road to implementing such a system.

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Pretty radical thoughts based on the Cravath System: "Bring lots of new employees in, team them up with mentors, provide real work to do, and give them a choice: either get lots of great experience and get out, or work hard for a higher-up position."

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As always, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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Kinda reminds me of "First break all the rules". It also has links to detailed posts on each of the points.

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How do you use your information & is there scope to monetize it?

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Interesting way to track your time using lego bricks to make graphs. Who says you need software to do this...

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A tad philosophical, and not the usual type of criticism directed at Apple.

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"PowerPoint in and of itself is not to blame for communication failures in the workplace or military. As a reader in Dr. Edward Tufte’s blog points out, blaming PowerPoint for the Columbia disaster would be like blaming Microsoft Outlook for spurring peop

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Includes tips on making effective presentations too - conciseness, visualisation, connection, confidence & passion

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Jargon tracker for meetings. You can generate different Bingo cards using the online tool.

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Interesting bit on life in consulting companies. This time in the backdrop of Dubai.

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Understand the reason behind success or failure & the context rather than blindly following a company or leader.

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A humorous way to calculate the money wasted on meetings.

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'Statistics aren’t evil. They’re just a bit like the weather – hard to really predict.
And as they say about economists and weathermen – they’re the only two jobs you can keep while being wrong nearly 100% of the time.'

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What do job interviews really tell us?
The prelude to Blink!

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A dozen things listed by Scoble ranging from picking the wrong technology to having priorities messed up.

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