The chapter, The Execution Difference, opens with more of the story of “Joe”, the loser CEO. He is characterized as a “typical” leader that does not know how to execute. I would characterize him more as a typical “Business Specialist” – a person with credentials in sales, marketing, administration but no background in the business at hand. If you follow the story, he also was stuck with or selected poor lieutenants to implement his grand visions for the company, as they had no background in the actual business of the company.
I love games. I find that they allow me to clear my head and get more focused. The focus kicks in after I stop playing the game of course. I enjoy logic puzzles and physics based games the most. However, I recently found out that I enjoy word games as well. Here are some of my favorites.
A relatively new Microsoft product called Photosynth could be the next big thing in real estate visualization.
We are not getting into the product market (yet), but we do have some wallpaper for your computer. Or backgrounds, if you’d like.
I found Dopplr a middle of 2008 and thought it was just a niche social network centered around travel. I added some trips, didn’t find any friends and added an app to my facebook.
Then I recieved my Personal Travel Report. What an amazing service! I really like visualizations of data and this was most of [...]
I feel like I should write a poem introduction to this article, but I am rhymed and metered out. Considering I won our Bad Poetry Contest, this is to be expected. Below is a series of poems, written by BJGers. I think some of the best ones were written by Pete, prodding everyone into writing poems. He at least deserves honorably mention!
Every year, the Reno office hosts a picnic for employees and their families. It is always a good time. This year it was held at Caughlin Ranch Park.
When I make a large purchase, I need to justify it to myself . Purchasing the Sony Reader was easy to justify. It’s obviously a “green” choice – no paper books to purchase, no gas wasted transporting books to and from locations, etc. For a more personal benefit, it eases concern about how much my [...]
