Developing Cultural Confidence
“Teams that are immersed in a culture of accountability, collaboration, and initiative are more likely to believe that they can weather any storm.” In...
Category: Great Quotes
Reduce Your Requirements
One of my favorite Microsoft executive exchanges with customers happened between Jeff Teper, CVP of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, and a customer as Jeff...
Malcolm Gladwell and the Underdog Approach to Innovation
I came across an article in the October 2013 Costco Connection (you read it too, right?) on one of my favorite columnists and authors,...
Governing Your Governance Process
"Agile software development projects can very likely be shoe-horned into your existing IT governance program. The not-so-easy answer is this likely isn’t a good...
Coopetition and community
I thought I’d close out January with a quote from an article in Harvard Business Review by Thomas J. Tierney (Collaborating for the Common...
Connected Ecosystems Are the Future
“These past few years, we in the design community stopped thinking of the original Macintosh and Sony Walkman as the epitome of good design....
Deep Thoughts
I recently picked up a book on my way through the airport called The Magicians, by Lev Grossman, that billed itself as “a mature...
A Demonstration of Labor
About 10 years ago, we had a custom pool put in. The contractor told my wife and I that we’d be fans of his...
Leadership, Not Middle Management
In the Jan-Feb 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review, Lynda Gratton wrote a column in which she stated “the classic job of the middle...
Reaching the Coasean Floor
Funny what you find when you clean out the office. While still at Microsoft, I usually had 3 or 4 books checked out of...
