Alex Payne — On Business Madness

Posted by on Feb 22, 2012 in Opinion | 0 comments

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.

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Sonic.net CEO on data caps

Posted by on Feb 21, 2012 in Opinion | 0 comments

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!.

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The sad irony of selfishness

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Opinion | 0 comments

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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