Alex Payne — On Business Madness
What I disagree with is the notion that anyone should start or operate a business in the explicit mold of someone else’s experience, as reduced to a couple hundred pages padded with illustrations and diagrams. It’s a bit like starting a fad diet without considering the particulars of your health and lifestyle. It may be hard to subsist on kumquat juice when your neighborhood grocer doesn’t sell kumquats.
via Alex Payne — On Business Madness.
I’ve become a victim to this sort of thinking. I work inside a large bio-pharma that is in the throes of change. We’ve adopted a Lean Sigma process model and ITIL framework as though this alone will save us from our crap.
Read MoreSonic.net CEO on data caps
My opinion is that caps make little technical sense, and I believe that the fundamental reason for capping is to prevent disruption of the television entertainment business model that feeds the TV screens in most households.
via Sonic.net CEO Blog » Blog Archive » Web Hogs!.
Read MoreThe sad irony of selfishness
The irony, of course, is that selflessness not selfishness, its opposite is precisely the posture that leads to more success. The person with the confidence to support others and to share is repaid by getting more in return than his selfish counterpart.
via Seths Blog: The sad irony of selfishness.
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