June 30th, 2007 | 
They say it’s lonely at the top. CEOs are uniquely responsible for the results of the company and how those results are achieved. No one shares this total responsibility. There are no peers in the organization and there is, generally, little understanding of the pressures that such responsibility carries. As such, CEOs are often [...]
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Sure, almost any management structure can work, depending on the people, the environment and how lucky you are. Those structures in which there are multiple people responsible for the same team or deliverables, though, almost always fail. When there isn’t a single person who is the final arbiter and decision-maker, decisions and, therefore, execution, can drag [...] The July edition of Popular Science (it doesn’t look like there’s an on-line version available) has a great article titled, The Worst Jobs in Science. The article outlines the 10 worst jobs available for scientists around the world – most with fairly vivid descriptions of what makes each of the jobs stink (some literally). [...] I mentioned that I worked for DEC to someone recently and they had no idea what I was talking about. Granted, the person was young, but he was an adult. Funny how the second largest computer company in the world in its time, and the inventor of the mini-computer could be so quickly forgotten. When [...] I mentioned last week that I was moving this blog off of an internal server to an externally-sourced one at 1&1. Further, that I chose to use a VPS, or Virtual Private Server, for the installation. For servers that don’t require loads of disk space, CPU power or memory, a virtual server makes loads [...] Let me get right to the punch line . . . good customer service is so easy because customers’ expectations are so low. It’s a relative thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it shouldn’t be that way, but it is and aggressive companies should be taking advantage of the fact that their customer’s have been beaten down [...] No one can say I didn’t warn ‘em. I’ve been talking about this for a while on this blog, to anyone who’ll listen and to many that are smart enough not to. Diesels are a better solution to minimizing the drain on dead and rotting dinosaurs than gasoline engines, even when coupled with batteries [...] I’ve been playing with the new beta of WLW for the last couple of days and I really like the way the product is coming along. I thought the first beta, which I have used for quite some time now, was already the best blogging editor available. The update solidifies that position even further, [...] I’ve consumed a lot of venture capital starting companies over the years. Not those insane amounts that you read about, but enough to make me wonder what the hell we did with all that money along the way. For the last few years, though, I’ve been fascinated with the idea that highly leveraged companies [...] Ah. Spring baseball in New England. Classic stadium, epic divisional rivalry, the best team in baseball (the Red Sox) and 50 degrees and raining. Thanks to my good friend Rick, I sat in the second row behind the plate at last night’s game (did you see me on TV? <g>). It was cool at [...] |
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