Tagged: Company

Book Review: Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself 9780061734618: William C. Taylor: Books

Amazon.com: Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself 9780061734618: William C. Taylor: Books. It is interesting isn’t it? Companies that are often corporations have legal status like a person. Yet when it comes to making decisions, they often forget to think like one.

Many times decision making at the top of the company is completely removed from the reality of the people on the front line. The best companies like Facebook, Apple, Google know that to be useful they have to creatively find ways to make their customers life easier. The companies that would read this don’t need to, and the ones who do need to read it, won’t change. People don’t change until often things are painful, and often not painful enough for CEO’s until their own situation and salary is affected.

So should you read this? It is wordy but has some interesting ideas. I am on the fence with this one.

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Want slideshows on WordPress.com? Try RockYou.com

I just made a slide show.  I don’t think it is geared toward professional use.  It took some time to make something that wasn’t tasteless.  Or perhaps I am wrong. You can judge below.
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*Yes I know the error above. I followed the instructions exactly as WP provided and it doesn’t work. I currently have an open ticket with RockYou to see if it is a bug or user error. I will update this webpage when customer support responds.

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Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (via TechCrunch)

Is youth an advantage in the technology world? Probably. You don’t tend to see many older people at companies that I have worked at in technical positions. They tend to take more managerial roles.

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States. Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent. But listen to the heart-wrenching stories of unemployed engineers, and you will realize that there are tens of thousands who can’t get jobs. What gives? The harsh reality is that in the tech world, compan … Read More

via TechCrunch

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