A frog a day…
Killing “big frogs” (sorry Kermit) has become a shorthand among a group of friends of mine for getting important done. I trace it back to… Read More »A frog a day…
Books and Recommendations
Ben Horowitz on leadership and management
Can you think about systems? Can you think about how broad-scale systems interactions occur and what the implications are? … In order to make that… Read More »Ben Horowitz on leadership and management
Ben Horowitz on leadership and making unpopular decisions
This is from Ben Horowitz in a fantastic interview on building a successful culture in your organisation. Highly recommend. If you make decisions that everybody… Read More »Ben Horowitz on leadership and making unpopular decisions
Tim O’Reilly on debugging your organisation
The skill of debugging is to figure out what you really told your program to do instead of what you thought you told your program… Read More »Tim O’Reilly on debugging your organisation
Peter Drucker on balancing short and long term goals
If a manager does not take care of the next hundred days, there will be no next hundred years. Whatever the manager does should be… Read More »Peter Drucker on balancing short and long term goals
Anders Ericsson on deliberate practice
Repetition is the mother of skill Tony Robins* Tony Robins is mostly right. 10,000 hours You’re probably familiar with the 10,000 hour rule as ‘discovered’… Read More »Anders Ericsson on deliberate practice
Seth Godin on the placebo effect (feat. Kevin Kelly)
In this context, the placebo effect is a metaphor for the story or the ‘show’ that you make around your work that isn’t necessary, but… Read More »Seth Godin on the placebo effect (feat. Kevin Kelly)
Peter Drucker on metrics as misdirection
Business, like any other institution, has important results that are incapable of being measured. Any experienced executive will know companies or industries that are bound… Read More »Peter Drucker on metrics as misdirection
Seth Godin on creating a (generous) monopoly
Every successful business has a monopoly—a monopoly on what it makes that someone else can’t make the way they make it. That leaves out commodity… Read More »Seth Godin on creating a (generous) monopoly
Amazon: working backwards and other stories
I’m late to the party on this, but I’ve just come across this very helpful technique for developing products and services, as used at Amazon.… Read More »Amazon: working backwards and other stories