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Nov 20

Management 101

A healthy, confident, well-adjusted manager knows their job is to do three things:

1. Hire thoroughbreds, point them at the finish line, and get out of their way unless they ask for help
2. Coach, teach, encourage and position ordinary horses to maximize their potential and approximate thoroughbreds in some of their work.
3. Fire those who can never do the work needed without your constant involvement to make room for those who can.

via Scott Berkun

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Nov 15

good intentions

rodica: some people just live off other people’s good intentions candide: that’s why it helps to have no good intentions ;-)

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Sep 19

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A Lesson in Marketing

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome - one has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David. Many people go by, look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.

A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none to the beggar behind the Star of David. Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says, “My poor fellow, don’t you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren’t going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you’re sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”

The beggar behind the Star of David listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the cross and said: “Moishe, look who’s trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing.”

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Sep 16

Classic Programmer Joke

A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. They were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. They pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt.

The physicist said “We need to model the friction in the brake pads and the resultant temperature rise, see if we can work out why they failed”.

The engineer said “I think I’ve got a few spanners in the back. I’ll take a look and see if I can work out what’s wrong”.

The programmer said “Why don’t we get going again and see if it’s reproducible?”

- via Stack Overflow

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Sep 7

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Aug 19

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

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Jul 12

creativity corporation

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Jul 3

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Jun 7

I think…that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

- Neil Gaiman

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Apr 12

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Three archers compete for a prize, all strike the mark, a fish, and are then asked “At what were you aiming?”

The first answers, “The fish.” as does the second, but the third?

“The center of the fish’s eye.”

You can’t be any better than you try to be and I’d much rather wait for the efforts of a person striving for perfection than accept those of someone willing to be mediocre.

” William (from a slashdot comment)

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