HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Looking forward to seeing you in 2006 for our 6th year of bBlog biz linking. Be safe. The link goes to a Flash game called “Someone keeps stealing my letters,” just for fun.
Classic Mistakes Enumerated
“Some ineffective development practices have been chosen so often, by so many people, with such predictable, bad results that they deserve to be called ‘classic mistakes.’ Most of the mistakes have a seductive appeal. Do you need to rescue a project that’s behind schedule? Add more people! Do you want to reduce your schedule? Schedule more aggressively! Is one of your key contributors aggravating the rest of the team? Wait until the end of the project to fire him! Do you have a rush project to complete? Take whatever developers are available right now and get started as soon as possible!”
The 50-30-20 Rule
“Lately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activities.”
Good and Bad Procrastination
“The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad? Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you’re not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.”
A Guide to Starting Your Business
“Making your own decisions. Doing something you love. Spending more time with the family. Participating in the American Dream. Starting a business is awesome. Paperwork. Legal fees. Invoices. More paperwork. Taxes. Starting a business sucks. The Particletree Team is about to incorporate its second business and have come to the conclusion that while everyone seems to be pretty good at giving sage advice about running a business, most fail to get to the specifics on starting one.”
Build to Flip = Build to Fail
“There are a bunch of blog posts flying around on the subject of flipping companies. Yes, we’ve been here before, 5 years or so ago, and yeah all the same issues remain. The interesting difference this time around is, thanks to the world wide everybody talking to/about/for everybody/everything, there is a ton of material for you, the start up, to absorb in your quest for world domination or just a bigger house.”
Happy Holidays!
We’re taking a short break here at bBlog to spend time with family and friends. Happy holidays, everyone! See you in a few days.
Most Meetings Stink…5 Tips For Making Yours Useful
“I don’t feel the need to persuade you that most meetings stink. I am confident that you have passed enough wasted hours in a meeting room to know that painful truth. Sadly, just last week I spent two hours in a confabulation that should have taken 20 minutes. I am in the business of making simple what are complex issues. In that tradition, I have pinpointed two reasons why meetings stink…”
Can You Edge Out Bill Gates?
“…a recent issue of BusinessWeek magazine … devoted many pages to listing the corporations and individuals who have been the most generous… To make the list, I would have had to give or pledge more than $120 million from 2001 to 2005 — that’s the amount pledged or given by No. 50 on the list, Analogic founder Bernard Gordon. More impressive, his net worth is estimated at $125 million and it’s believed he has given some $125 million in his lifetime. That’s pretty great!”
Life at Innotech – Jeans Day!
“I thought Office Space was making this stuff up. This is an actual email sent to employees at my friend’s company (and when I say friend I mean husband). This is NOT from eBay. eBay’s not lame. Subject: Jeans Day Announcement…”
RECENT WORK
Recent posts
- New project: The Carbon Economy
- David Allen releases The Ultimate GTD Workflow Map, designed by XPLANE
- Online Database of Social Media Policies
- Did You Know 4.0
- The Building Blocks of Social Media for Business
- 7 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy From 37signals
- 37 Pithy Insights From Street-Smart Entrepreneurs
- New video: ‘Imagine Leadership,’ by XPLANE & HBS’s Nitin Nohria
- Why Business Plans Don’t Deliver
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
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