Autor: Tim Strehle
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Alex Pukinskis: 3 Ways to Inspect and Adapt at Scale
Alex Pukinskis – 3 Ways to Inspect and Adapt at Scale: “We’re all familiar with top-down change initiatives. Senior leadership gets together, analyzes the problem, designs a solution, and announces it. Everyone else is left to react. This approach leads to problems for two main reasons. First, people don’t know when change is going to…
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David Gewirtz: My infuriatingly unsuccessful quest for a good media asset management tool
A wonderful rant by David Gewirtz on ZDNet – My infuriatingly unsuccessful quest for a good media asset management tool: “There is a category called „Digital Asset Management“ out there as well. These are enterprise-level products, often Web-based. You can begin to tell they’ll be trouble because there’s no price for the product on the…
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I know. I can. I want to. I do.
You’re my colleague, or my boss. I wish you would do something, and we both can agree that it’s a good thing to do. What does it take you to actually start doing it? Well, 1) you need to know about it, 2) you need to be able to do it, 3) you have to…
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Scott Adams: The Management-free Organization
Scott Adams – The Management-free Organization: “Our decision-making so far seems to follow a rational model that goes like this: 1. We discuss the question (by email or Skype). 2. Everyone gives an opinion or adds information. 3. The smartest choice becomes obvious to all. 4. The end. That decision-making model might not work in…
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James Whittaker: The Anti Meeting Culture
James Whittaker – The Anti Meeting Culture: “Vote with your feet by walking away from the more useless meetings. Just don’t go to those meetings where the organizer holds court. Anyone who likes the sound of their own voice that much doesn’t deserve your attendance. Build disdain for meetings into your DNA so that every…
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Jon Udell: Networks of first-class peers
Jon Udell – Networks of first-class peers: “It is possible for various of our avatars — our websites, our blogs, our calendars — to represent us as first-class peers. That means: – They use domain names that we own – They converse with other peers in ways that we enable and can control – They…