Archives for June 2009
Things they don’t tell you about management – part II
In my previous post, I talked about our web site team problem and the solution that we reached. I though that we solved the web issue, I only managed to make things worse…
The following day, I was talking to my managers about the difference between Victim and Responsibility and about discussing this in our […]
Things they don’t tell you about management – part I
Here is a story of a situation that we had to solve back in February. The background of this is our web site and our web site developer. Our web site developer was frustrated that he didn’t have a complete upfront design but the management take is that we have to be agile, get […]
Employee Motivation Myths Debunked
David Javitch talks in Entrepreneur.com about 5 motivation myths.
These don’t work
Money motivates.
Just keep them happy.
Ignore Conflict.
Some people just aren’t motivated.
Smart employees don’t need to be motivated
I whole heartedly agree with David, it is just his 10 quick ways to motivate them that sound heartless
I think that there is one real good way to motivate your […]
Bring Me Your Solved Problems
John Hunter has a post that is an answer to Frank Roche : No Problem Without a Solution. John quotes Taiichi Ohno “Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.”
Both sides have a valid point here. On one hand, it is the managers job to make sure that his team can learn to […]
Pit of death
The opposite of the Best Case Scenario is the Pit of death.
Falling into the Pit of death can happen quite quickly when we focus on results instead of focusing on actions. Lets take an example, suppose we have a bug to find. Our software works on my machine, but doesn’t work on Gil’s. […]
Hardware and Software spring Cleaning [off topic]
I did a little spring cleaning to my personal PC. It was full of dust and that drove the dual-core CPU temperature to rise to 60°C / 140°F. Once the physical cleaning was done, I did some software cleaning, uninstalling unused applications, killing unneeded services and shortening the system and user login time.
I used […]
Best Case Scenario
Staying positive and energized is a one of the major jobs of a Manager/Entrepreneur. There are many pitfalls on the way to making our dreams come to realization, but once we go negative, it is hard to go back. So I try (not always that successfully) to refrain from saying “no”, and to not […]
Pushing and pulling
Now that the company is in integrity it is easier to fail fast and to fix our broken processes. As Johanna Rothman says Graceful Degradation is Not What We Want; Quick Failure is Better
Not only is it easy to do it, we don’t even need a manager to do this as the actual team member […]
Will liability change everything?
Some software application bug must have really pissed of Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva as they want software developers to be held liable for the security and efficacy of their product.
Alen Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers argues against the liability. “Closed-source companies could not be held liable for their code […]
Where is you CFO (Chief Fear Officer)
(Via Zane Safrit) “This Manager of Fear has a simple job description: Help management and others see how their fear — when left unchecked — can lead to bad business decisions, mediocre work and possibly the demise of the business.” Culture of Fear is Creeping Into the Workplace.
I would have a manager of growth […]
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