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Stay Hungry – Stay Foolish

Posted on October 19th, 2008 in Interesting stuff, Online Business | No Comments »

Here is nice speech of Steve Jobs

The last words is “… Stay hungry, stay foolish …”
Actually whole word is foolish now and very soon will be hungry

New MacBook Pro looks good with Brasses ;)

Posted on October 17th, 2008 in Interesting stuff | No Comments »

I was waiting for new macbook pretty long time.
And here is it – I had to drive 40 minutes to buy in Miami because in Ft. Lauderdale where no mac yet.

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Embrace creativity within the team

Posted on October 5th, 2008 in Interesting stuff, Online Business | No Comments »

I’ve just scanned(read) last issue of Harvard Business Review and there is article about how to make teams/companies creative

* … remember that you are not the sole fount of ideas

* be the appreciative audience
* ask the inspiring questions
* allow ideas to bubble up from the workforce

* … enable collaboration

* combat the lone inventor myth
(this is very actual thing for me now around allwomenstalk.com)
* define “superstar” as someone who helps others succeed
* use “coordinators totems” – metaphors, analogies, and stories – to help teams conceptualize together

* embrace diversity

* get people in with different backgrounds/experience to work together
* encourage to gain different experience

… can’t remember

* … accept the inevitability and utility of failure

* create psychological safety to maximize learning from failure
* recognize different kinds of failure and show how to use it

* … motivate with intellectual challenge

* protect front end from commercial pressure
* clear paths through the bureaucracy for ideas
* let people do “good work”

nice tips – isn’t it?

Grand Blogger

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Interesting stuff | No Comments »

For me it’s still weird moment

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I can imagine my grand mom even with toaster

US Army the best example of virtual team

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 in Interesting stuff, Online Business | No Comments »

Starbucks + good book = nice thoughts

Exploring organization and management of virtual teams I’ve just discovered that US army is the really best example of effective virtual team

They operate all over the word show good results (from military point of view)

And don’t forget that Internet, GPS came to us from them as well