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Co-opetition - Barry Nalebuff Yale School of Management - 1996
This 'game theory' way of thinking is being popularized in the UK by Vince Cable. As well as advice for entrepreneurs, there are interesting ideas here for project procurement strategies. Looking more deeply, inspired by the "hidden costs of bidding" s
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Competition is valuable:
Don't give it away,
Get paid to play ... Cash
Contribution to upfront
expenses
Guaranteed sales contract
Last-look
Access to people
Access to information
Facebook | Message: Some good videos
Some interviews - perhaps useful for learning spoken Mandarin. I haven't seen them yet. Recommended by Paul Zhou.
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Jason Zhang, His firm has been growing much more these few years.
CG -- Encountering Cooperative Extremists
Coping with conflict in a democratic enterprise
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# The point is not to avoid conflict over tough issues but to avoid disruption of operations and the breakdown of constructive communication.
Five whys - Joel on Software
This sounds like a good approach for controlling a highly reliable service.
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Instead of setting up a SLA for our customers, we set up a blog where we would document every outage in real time, provide complete post-mortems, ask the five whys, get to the root cause, and tell our customers what we're doing to prevent that problem in the future.
Impressions of India 4 - UK/Indian SME Partnerships - Ecademy
Readable concise article with John Cave's views on outsourcing operations to India.
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And of course don't just look at cost, you wouldn't automatically go for the cheapest supplier in the UK, nor should you when looking for a supplier in India. Remember that everyone in the chain from customer to outsourced supplier/JV Partner needs to be looked after, so don't be greedy.
The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2) » Manager Tools Blog Archive
Printed contact list, at home, of 100 contacts, current in the last 180 days - with physical address, 1 preferably 2 phone numbers, email address, and names of spouses and children.
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In the same way that “Finances Rule” when it comes to being laid off, PREPARATION makes the entire process so much easier.
Manager Tools - Tools for Leaders and Managers
I am listening to the first few minutes of one of these podcasts, but judging by the summaries, they will be quite interesting for any manager
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The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2)
How to Set Annual Goals (Part 3 of 3)
One on One Scheduling Guidance (Part 2 of 2)
How to Handle a Group Interview
Seth's Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint
Speeches with powerpoint but without the death
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No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
Bill Clementson's Blog - How to make money with Lisp
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Again, Lisp shines as an alternative development language when you start talking about small, autonomous business units that are individually accountable for their own profit margins.
ArsDigita Server Architecture
Interesting package of engineering and management advice
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What if a disk drive fills up? Are we notified in advance? Are we notified when it happens? How long does it take to restore service?
That's what's this document is about.
Russ Writes We All Fall Down
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By using a business process called the Theories of Constraints (TOC) Beth manages to get her colleagues on her side and together they find not only the core problem of health systems worldwide, but they also discover how to free up 10 to 30% of the hospital beds without significant investment.
Ask E.T.: PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports
Tufte argues for concise written reports - instead of fragmented bullet points - when delivering technical information for decision making. Evidence is from the Challenger disaster. In my view everything needs an executive summary, but if you try to mak
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Serious problems require a serious tool: written reports.
The Joy of Tech comic... laughter is the best tech support. Oct 11 2007
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They are selling it as a pay-what-you-want download!
Sacked worker blames porn on malware - Print this article - ZDNet.co.uk
An employer can write an employment handbook that, according to the judge, is not worth the paper it is written on. That is a serious problem with an 'employment-at-will' doctrine.
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Farr argues that St Francis breached two duties owed to him: 1) a duty imposed by the St Francis Handbook to conduct a "thorough and fair investigation of allegations of wrongdoing that can result in termination of employments,"
A Cooperative Solution
Rabobank in the Netherlands
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This involves more brains and more time up front — and therefore would seem to take an awful lot longer. But everybody who has worked with this system will tell you that the gain made in the implementation, both in speed and quality, outweighs by far the decisions made in conventional companies.”
Ideas for Startups
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the main value of your initial idea is that, in the process of discovering it's broken, you'll come up with your real idea....everyone knows that if you tried this you'd be able to make something useful....Ideas get developed in the process of explaining them to the right kind of person. You need that resistance, just as a carver needs the resistance of the wood....
Let me repeat that recipe: finding the problem intolerable and feeling it must be possible to solve it...People must want something if they pay a lot for it. And it is a very rare product that can't be made dramatically cheaper if you try....So if you want to start a startup, you can take almost any existing technology produced by a big company, and assume you could build something way easier to use.
...the best way to generate startup ideas is to do what hackers do for fun: cook up amusing hacks with your friends.
MercuryNews.com | 06/03/2006 | HP cuts back on telecommuting
How do HP expect to make money by encourage people to connect over the Internet more, if they cannot do it themselves.
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By August, almost all of HP's IT employees will have to work in one of 25 designated offices during most of the week. With many thousands of HP IT employees scattered across 100 sites around the world...HP has offered to pay some relocation expenses for IT employees who live more than 50 miles from a designated office,
Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Visiting Sun’s CEO
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doesn't understand why some companies force their employees to come into the office.
Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Cleaning up from the MediaStorm
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Would you let an employee who announced to the world that he was leaving walk around your executive offices with a camcorder? I'm not sure many companies in the world would.
Oh, and he invited me back to work at Microsoft just in case my new gig didn't work out
WSJ.com - Management à la Google
Google seems to consistently break the rules of organizing a large business ... an LBS professor argues that may be its sescret for future success
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Google wants to grow its online ad business into the distant future, but its self-conception stretches far beyond its current revenue model....Every project team, and there are hundreds, maintains a Web site that is continuously monitored for peer feedback. In this way, unorthodox ideas have the chance to accumulate peer support -- or not -- before they get pummeled by the higher-ups. It also helps that Google is organized like the Internet itself: tightly connected, flat and meritocratic.
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