Tweet Delegation is mysterious to many of us. What do you ask others to do? What do you do yourself? While these questions are somewhat position related, there are some basic rules about delegating. These steps are from a book and presentation (see below) 1 Prepare Beforehand 2. Clearly define the task to be completed. [...]
Tweet I’ve been very remiss about catching up on the blogs I enjoy reading. This morning, I rebuilt the entire site and had to repost every single entry because Yahoo will not provide support for MoveableType. One day soon, I’m going to post the entire customer support conversation. I get a kick out of it [...]
Tweet Charles Zedlewski does a great job of explaining the developing software innovations at: http://yetanothersoftwareblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/innovation-in-enterprise-software.html. He’s one of the people I read regularly and I had no idea he’d posted this. Silly me for missing it…
Tweet Necessity is the Mother of Invention I had two run ins today with necessity spurring invention. One is David Biesel’s post on how real innovation is about to happen due to the differentiation requirement in start-up companies. I agree with him since the advertising model is one that is working, but will taper off [...]
Tweet I wonder where IT (information technology) is in its lifespan? We’ve had computers for over 50 years now and computing devices for much longer. Recently, I read a slide from a professor at MIT (through their Opencourseware site) about the progress of manufacturing as compared to the progress of computer development. The slide is [...]