http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/08/if_youre_the_boss_start_killin.html “Groups that can’t kill enough ideas often suffer from bad group dynamics, either because multiple members won’t allow the group to kill their pet ideas, or because the group avoids difficult conversations and decisions.”
Feb
01
Mark Pincus: “Everyone Should Be CEO of Something” (NYT interview via @timoreilly)
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction. By 150, it’s clear that that’s not going to scale, and you’ve got to find some way to keep everybody going in… Continue reading »
Nov
16
Finding the Right Job For Your Product – The Magazine – MIT Sloan Management Review
Product and customer characteristics are poor indicators of customer behavior, because from the customer’s perspective that is not how markets are structured. Customers’ purchase decisions don’t necessarily conform to those of the “average” customer in their demographic; nor do they confine the search for solutions within a product category. Rather, customers just find themselves needing… Continue reading »