Monthly Archives: April 2007
Promise-Based Management
Most of the vexing challenges leaders face – improperly executed strategy, lack of organizational agility, disengaged employees, and so on – stem from broken or poorly crafted commitments. Executives can overcome some of their thorniest problems in the short … Continue reading
Vonage: Not Quite Dead Yet
About a month ago – after a Federal court issued an injunction which prevented Vonage from signing up new customers during their appeals process – there were those in the media who were predicting the impending death of Vonage. Well … Continue reading
Filed under Appeal, Innovation, Intellectual Property, IP, Marketing, Verizon, Vonage
Ubuntu v7.04 – Fiesty Fawn
Late last week, I decided to upgrade two of my PCs from Ubuntu’s v6.10 (Edgy Eft) to the beta release of v7.04 aka Fiesty Fawn. Now while I have mentioned before that I have “tech-tendencies” but not nearly as tech … Continue reading
Filed under Edgy Eft, Fiesty Fawn, Linux, OS, Technology, Ubuntu
Nasty People Drain Productivity in the Workplace
I recently re-read the Robert Sutton article entitled Nasty People. This article, which helped lead the way to his recently published book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace, discusses the impact that employees who create a hostile work … Continue reading
Perfecting product launches
The April 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review contained the article “Preparing for the perfect product launch” by James P. Hackett, President and CEO of Steelcase. Hackett does a wonderful job of explaining the troubles that many organizations … Continue reading
