Delegate Well or Not at All (1)
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One thing that often happens to founders trying to grow their companies is the need for delegation. As a founder of a small company, you start by doing everything from unlocking the door in the morning to closing up at night. You grow it by bringing in other people to take on the tasks you originally did yourself, one by one. I've been through that process myself. In the early days of Palo Alto Software ...
We All Snap At Some Point (1)
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(I work at a store that is open 24/7, and only closed for 36 hours out of the entire year. Around EVERY holiday, there is someone who calls the store wondering if the store is open. This past 4th of July, I decided to have a little fun with it.) Me: “Thank you for calling [store]. How may I help you?” Customer: “Hi, I was wondering if you guys were open today?” Me: “No, I’m ...
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How to do India with kids in tow | India - Times Online Travelling in style hadn’t locked us away from India, from its conversations and people. Our children had drawn us to new experiences. And India… still showed little sign of wanting to be anything but its own unique self. (tags: india travel kids)
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10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back (22)
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What are the myths and mistaken beliefs that are preventing you from being more productive in both your work life and your personal life? How are you actively undermining your efforts to pull it all together? Yeah, I mean you. The sad fact is that the beliefs that we hold about productivity and organization often prevent us from doing and being everything we want to do and be in our lives. While we cannot control ...
Once Again And Again (3)
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Call it “Indian resilience in the face of terror” or the “manifestation of the spirit of city X” (X= city hit by terror). Or more precisely call it our ability to not really care for anything as long as it does not directly affect us or our loved ones. Call it what you will but what never ceases to amaze me and many others is how the terror unleashed by periodic bomb blasts, that take ...
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Please, Please Listen To Yourself Talk (6)
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(At our library, the computers are all self-sign up. All you have to do is type in your name and library card number. This is clearly posted on the side of the monitor. In walks a young woman and her boyfriend.) Young woman: “Can you help me with this?” Me: “What’s the problem?” Young woman: “I don’t know what to do.” Me: “The instructions are on the side of the monitor.” Young woman: “But why ...
Blast from the Past 2: Something To Think About (1)
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We Need One Of These In Every Store, Part 2 (6)
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(There is a long line at a small local convenience store due to a very nice but inexperienced cashier. The cashier messes up a purchase for the second time…) Owner, to cashier: ”What the f*** is wrong with you?! You are so f***ing worthless!” Customer: “How dare you talk to her like that! She is trying her hardest!” Owner, to customer: ”If you don’t like how I treat my employees, you can leave!” (Upon hearing ...
Sad News This Morning… Randy Pausch has Passed Away. (2)
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Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University whose “last lecture” brought him to international prominence for his courage, his compassion and his humanity while facing a terminal illness. If you haven’t seen his now famous lecture it is well worth the hour you’ll invest. There are lessons there for all of us regardless of our age, health, gender, race, or economic status. His talk reaches across all boundaries and is an eloquent ...
Quotation for a Saturday (1)
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Conner
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Why Innovation Is Overrated - Scott Berkun Making good things people love is the true spine of these companies successes, and it’s a stronger framework for managers to use when trying to learn from their examples. (tags: innovation business) Saving Strategy From the Strategists - Umair Haque What happened in finance? Everyone confused arbitrage with strategy.But arbitrage is simply about capturing value at the expense of counterparties: no new value is created by arbitrageurs…Strategy must ...
Get Out of the "Middle of the Road"—or Go Out of Business (3)
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These days, the only thing more unsettled than the weather is the state of the economy. Ford celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Model-T by posting the biggest quarterly loss in its history. The major airlines fly into the summer-vacation season by adding vast amounts of red ink to an industry that is already drowning in it. (American Airlines, by one estimate, loses $3.3 million per day.) And Yahoo, once the lovable darling of the ...
Back to Basics: Your Calendar (14)
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One of the first things people do when they make the decision to “get organized” is buy some kind of calendar. It might be a dayplanner, a desktop “blotter-pad” calendar, a Palm or Blackberry, or some other kind of device or system they can schedule all their appointments and obligations in. Most of us instinctively understand that the key to good time management is knowing where to be and what to be doing there at ...
Goliath's Revenge Part 1 (1)
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I had a nice time in Bend (Oregon) last weekend, including a conversation after dinner with some friends, a nice summer night, staying light late; the subject of large companies screwing small companies came up. I had something to add -- from experience. More of the "mistakes I've made" categories. They're easier to talk about at the end of a good day, looking at the river, feeling at peace with things. Before I get into ...
Plastic, It’s Faaantastic (3)
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Me: “Hello, thank you for calling [video rental store]. We have thousands of rentals for 99 cents. How may I help you?” Customer: “Uh, yeah, I just bought a movie from yer lil’ store, and uh, I can’t get the darn thing open!” (In our store, we have movies protected against theft by having a magnetic lock in them, so my first thought was maybe we had left the lock in.) Me: “Um, yes, I ...
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The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company though public acquirers are structurally identical to pooled-risk company management companies, they don’t think of themselves that way. (tags: PaulGraham management organization startup business ideas)
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How often does something go wrong with some business relationship - from a screw-up, to a missed or late appointment - and you sense that the explanation you are getting is a line?The other day a client sent me an irritated email about a piece of information he hadn't received. I said that I would check into it and get right back to him only to discover that I had been sent the information two ...
