I’ve discussed how critical accurately forecasting sales is to a company’s success before. In short, I think that companies that have the skill to accurately predict how much they will sell and from where those sales will come have a substantial advantage over those that don’t – they can grow faster and often without [...]
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[Update: Mr. Gullible once again ignored the old adage - when it's too good to be true, it probably is. Thanks to Ron and John who pointed out that this was, in fact, an ad for Gatorade that was never televised. It's still very cool. I wonder why it never got airtime outside of [...] Long time friend and cohort, Lorne Cooper, has two new posts up on the AccuRev blog that are must reads if you’re in the software development business. Aside from his role as CEO of AccuRev (I am a board member and investor), which develops and sells software for software developers, Lorne has a long [...] For all sports-o-phobics out there, this is really an article about management . . . it’s likely to be a controversial one at that. Even as a die-hard Red Sox fan, I can’t deny the fact that the New York Yankees are likely the greatest sports franchise of all time, at least as measured [...] An investor and board member of one of my early companies used to say: any day, any time, you can fire a canon through the company’s building and not miss the employees taken out in the blast.” I wish I could definitively say that he phrased it that way just to emphasize [...] Sure, it’s theoretically possible to create bug-free high-tech products. That is, products that seem “bug-free” to the user when they: are used exactly as intended by their creator are used by users who are only looking for a common and strict subset of the product’s prescribed functionality are always used in the same, well-known environment are intuitive [...] All companies, yup that includes the successful ones, eventually have some form of layoff. Before you go ballistic on me, let’s first define a layoff. According to Wikipedia, a layoff is: the termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees for business reasons, such as the decision that certain positions [...] 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 [...] This is the fourth and final post (for now) in my series on communicating with your board. You can find the previous posts here, here and here. As a corporate director, I wince when I get a board package that opens up with a stack of detailed group-level reports and loads of spreadsheets containing every [...]  May 16th, 2007 |  Tags: Communicating with Your Board | Category: Boards, Management, Startups |  Leave a comment Matt over at his OnlyOnce blog has a great post up titled, It Never Goes Without Saying. Matt makes the case for why leaders and managers should take advantage of every opportunity to communicate messages, feedback, direction and vision. What constitutes an opportunity? Any event or “moment” as Matt calls them. The post discusses creating such [...] |
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