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Deconstructing HP – Part I
It’s certainly been an interesting few months. First HP Fires Mark Hurd; choosing to hire Leo Apotheker, an executive with an all-software background. ( Shortly thereafter, Apotheker makes a bid to...
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Deconstructing HP – Part II
Last time we took at look at HP’s situation through a different lens – the lens of management consulting. Today I’d like to take a different approach; on based on history. But first, a story. A Long...
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A Road Less Travelled – II
Ian Rutherford is a technie; someone just comfortable enough in IIS, SQL Server, HTML and ASP to make a ‘real’ e-commerce site – or at least comfortable enough to learn. Last time we talked about...
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The Singularity Signal – III
I just got into Sweden for a conference, and I am immediately struck by how efficient the place is. My room, which might be described as a small American room, had two additional roll-away twin...
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The Lean Green Startup Machine
A strange thing started happening to me about two years ago. I would be at a social event, probably a user’s group, and someone would start talking about either their startup idea, or, perhaps, the...
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What the Microsoft Memo Actually Said
Yesterday I was struck this tweet from Fog Creek Software CEO Joel Spolsky: Then I read the memo; now I’m with Joel. The document is not something someone leaked, a half-baked message sent off in a...
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The How, and Why, of the Microsoft Memo
At this point, I doubt I need to explain the problems with the Microsoft Memo. You have likely read my analysis but you hardly need to; you could just read the memo yourself. My article was not...
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Radical Transparency
For the first half of my career, I found the term transparency to be kind of, well … scary. Not because transparency itself is bad, as much as it’s step-children and cousin words — governance and...
View ArticleEnding Stack Ranking at Microsoft, Starting it at Yahoo
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong. - H.L. Melcken It’s an interesting time in Silicon Valley. Microsoft, fresh off this summer’s reorganization,...
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On Office Politics
Last time I introduced Cubu, a game that appeared, on its surface, to be about pattern matching, but actually works on multiple levels. I find that more than a little bit like office politics. Even...
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It looks like Zappos is joined the company wide reorganization bandwagon, but this time it has a new name; holacracy. This new change will mean fewer managers, fewer or no job titles, and small...
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Efficiency at Hertz
Just two weeks ago, I was in Portland, Oregon, with my family of five, about to pick up a rental car from Hertz. It was 9:00PM Pacific, about midnight back home; the rental area was nice and empty …...
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Two Types of Power
Have you ever noticed that people can get really dumb during negotiations? I’m talking too dumb to believe. Professionally dumb. There was, for example, the time I became a project manager, promoted...
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