Archive for 'Management'
Is The MBA Overrated?
Interesting article in Business Week:
BusinessWeek research has found that fewer than one out of three executives who reach those lofty heights do so with the help of an MBA. And if you think a sheepskin from a top school is a necessity, think again. Only half of the executives with MBAs went to the top [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Interesting, Management, Tech.
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The Latest Management Fad
From Nearing Zero:
Posted: March 29th, 2007 under Amusements, Management.
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On Herding Cats
Just saw an interesting quote on /. from a user named plopez:
Herding cats is hard because you are using the wrong management technique. You herd cattle (and sheep and goats and pigs etc.), you do *not* herd cats. Cats, you put them in the general area of the mice and let them do what they [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under DeepThoughts, Management.
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Inside eBay’s Innovation Machine
CIO Insight has an interesting article discussing eBay’s move to a new open architecture allowing 3rd-party integration via web APIs.
Infopia is not just another software vendor. It’s part of a growing community of some 40,000 independent developers, all building products using eBay’s own application programminginterfaces, or APIs—the connection points that let a program share data [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under Management, Tech.
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The guiding principles of the Slacker@Work
Brendon @ Slacker Manager has hit the nail on the head yet again with this list:
I’ve been thinking lately about what overarching ideas guide folks like us (you know, smart people who want to do good work, but only when it’s good work we want to do). I’ve examined my own ways and I think [...]
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under DeepThoughts, Management.
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