Category: Business
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NFL and ESPN leaving money on the table?
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Where are the jobs now? What does that mean for your future and your business’ future?
I was looking up a reference to 37 signals approach to software and couldn’t resist looking at their entire portfolio of products. One product that I noticed is the 37signals Job Board. Look at the jobs listed. Now notice where the jobs are located. Now think about where they are NOT located: the South East.…
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Getting Value out of Checklists for Quality Improvement
Just finished reading the excellent article, Amazing Checklists by Ian Whittingham, PMP over at projectmanagement.com. Ian gives a brief history of checklists used in business and then tracing them back to early checklists found in the palace of King Minos at Knossos for regulating the palace’s administrative processes. Ian then brings us a great case…
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Starting another blog for Business Management advice
Image via Wikipedia I decided to start another blog for capturing all the management consultant observations and wisdom that comes to me throughout my life under that sun. My initial hope was rather self-serving: create a place to dump my brain that connects all the places on the web where I draw upon as a…
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Silly software licensing models
I recently stumbled upon a situation where I violated the terms of my software license agreement. Following that, I almost bought another piece of software where I would have inadvertently broken the terms of my license agreement there, too. What gives? What would cause me to violate the terms of my software license agreement? A…