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12 Dec 09

Why Wise Leaders Don't Know Too Much - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org

  • Even the sturdiest shelf crumbles under the weight of too many books.
  • Too much knowledge undermines the greatest insights, the deepest conjectures.
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28 Nov 09

Winner's Curse: Why Losing A B-School Biz Plan Competition Is Better Than Winning

  • I submit that losing in a business plan contest is actually more beneficial than winning. There is a growing body of research that children who are praised too early and too easily end up under-performing peers who are not praised but are told, in constructive terms, they can do better.
  • With the bursting of the dotcom bubble, the tech world was reminded that even a great idea funded by venture capital didn’t necessarily produce business success.
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15 Nov 09

Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action « Steve Blank

  • confusing “the accounting” of the effort with achieving the goal
  • Jim’s goal was to get other companies to put their software on an unfinished, buggy computer with no customers. While a tough problem, not an insurmountable one for an entrepreneur focused on the objective, not the process.
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09 Nov 09

One Amongst a Multitude: Thoughts on Hiring: Why You Shouldn't Judge People Solely On Outcomes

  • The problem that I see with track records is, most people, especially when desperate for more help, never look beyond it and just take everything people with good track records say at face value, and don't dig any deeper.
  • A long string of successes often blinds us to luck's effect on those outcomes, and we start feeling an aura of invincibility and treating future ventures with an inevitability of success, which is very dangerous.
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21 Sep 09

Mass-scale computing: Why Hadoop is hot but Java is not | VentureBeat

  • this is the almost logical outcome of the way open source software works. The first implementation with a strong community wins (no matter how inefficient)
07 Aug 07

Netflix Community Blog: Todd Speaks: 1/2 Stars

  • when we make the ½ star options possible, we get fewer ratings.
    Significantly fewer ratings. We have argued these results internally
    for some time, and our best guess is that the complexity of doubling
    the number of choices from 5 to 10 deters many people from rating, so
    they just give up.

sarahcpr » Blog Archive » Why Facebook Will Die

  • So what do users do when their online social networks get complicated,
    boring or both? They go back to doing what they always do - use email.
  • There seems to be a disconnect with how online social networks currently work, and how private and unpopular
    we really are. These sites want us to keep adding more and more
    contacts until our network is bursting at the seams. But when it comes
    to forming lasting relationships, more is not better. We just don’t
    have the time, energy or inclination to have that many close
    relationships.
06 Jul 07

Crowdsourcing: Assignment Zero: The Interviews

  • This is the beauty of open organizational systems. People self-select,
    assigning themselves to tasks for which they are best-suited. Contrast
    this with the process by which an interviewer is assigned to
    interviewee in a closed system (a magazine or newspaper).
25 Oct 06

Measure What Matters

  • Of all the numbers that we measure, two are especially important to me. One -- how many PhDs we have on staff -- shows how smart we are.
  • What gets measured is what gets done
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