Categories: Corporate Leadership, Change Management, Dealing with People

Interesting research on high-performing teams in software organizations

by Graham Email

...some interesting insights here. more »

Corporate leaders caught padding resumes...

by Graham Email

The headline on this story was the discovery that the CEO of Radio Shack had inflated his resume. However, this is merely the tip of a very large cultural phenomenon that is discussed in more detail here. One thing I fail to understand is how so many p… more »

Humor for use within Corporations...

by Graham Email

more of what a former leader of mine once termed "weasel words"......and a bunch of Dilbert strips about the use (and abuse) of ISO9000. more »

The importance of diversity in problem-solving

by Graham Email

For many years now, corporations have been worshipping at the altar of "diversity", which is claimed to be A Good Thing. Most medium-to-large corporations have Diversity Policies, written in personnel handbooks and trumpeted on internal and external wesb… more »

Maximum Team Sizes for effective working

by Graham Email

An interesting article that points to other resources discussing team size. This is all part of the origins to my comment at last year's OMG MDA seminar in Orlando, where I pointed out that software development as a group activity does not scale well. Ev… more »

The Top 10 lies of corporate America

by Graham Email

...lifted from somebody commenting in Guy Kawaasaki's blog: Top 10 Lies of Corporate America 1. Our employees are our greatest asset. (Until we can replace them with cheaper ones, offshoring that is). 2. We reward loyalty (Ha! You are but an old l… more »

The top 10 lies of entrepreneurs...

by Graham Email

...and the Top 10 Lies of Venture Capitalists. ...and some other reading about how to hack your way around the Venture Capital jungle... more »

Here's an interesting posting about Innovation...

by Graham Email

...and buried in the comments is this little gem: The Top Ten Lies Of Business Gurus 1. I'm successful because I'm brilliant. Never mind that I sold a money-losing piece of crap to a dot-com at the height of the internet madness. You should listen… more »

Article in praise of procrastination...

by Graham Email

...in which Paul Graham explains how procrastination (at least for small stuff) may simply be a reflection of the fact that people like to work on significant stuff... more »

Tributes to Peter Drucker

by Graham Email

Peter Drucker, the doyen of management thinkers and writers, died in November at the ripe old age of 95. He was active up until the last days of his life, constantly probing at the answers to fundamental questions of corporate leadership ans stewardship.… more »

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