How project managers can master transformational change | CIO. Breaking down the three levels of change management Individual change management is the most basic level where changes can have a detrimental impact on each individual within an organization first. When projects create change, some individuals adapt quickly and remain flexible while others may react with [...]
Forget Technical Debt — Heres How to Build Technical Wealth | First Round Review. This means code that isn’t written cleanly, that lacks explanation, that contains zero artifacts of your ideas and decision-making processes. A unit test is one type of artifact, but so is any documentation of the rationale and reasoning used to create [...]
Explore your Passion for the Humanities: Music, Film, Literature The humanities are often described as the study of how people process and document the human experience, making it so relevant to developing empathy. Steve Jobs so often talked about how at Apple they tried to be at the intersection of liberal arts and technology. And [...]
vía Professionalize a Startup Without Stifling It – Harvard NBusiness Review Don't They try to codify their genius. They start recruiting like incumbents. They want to harmonize everything. Do Translate strategy into a professionalization agenda. Let heroes walk the halls again. Put systems in place selectively and reaffirm coaching. Recruit the “black sheep.”
RECONSIDER — Signal v. Noise. … The distortion is exacerbated by the fact that people building profitable companies outside the sphere of the VC dominion have little systemic need to tell their story. VCs, on the other hand, need the continuous PR campaign to meet their recruiting goals. They can’t just bag a single [...]
6 ways to be a better project manager | CIO. Communication Time management & productivity Building your community Framework, workflow and project schedule Leadership and Collaboration Management tools
A “no” or non-response today isn’t forever. How to follow up with investors who have rejected... - Bringing transparency to seed investing.... When… 1) The investor doesn’t / no longer invests in your vertical / space. 2) The investor thinks you’re too early. 3) The investor doesn’t think you’re impressive. 4) The investor thinks your [...]
Lessons from Kodak - Peter Diamandis Eight Don’ts – How Not To Be Disrupted Don’t close out your options too early: For Kodak, they decided they weren’t going to be in the digital camera business. As a result, they stopped devoting resources to digital before it was too late. Don’t eliminate new products, new markets and [...]
How To Create A Career Plan For Your Employees. A really interesting study by a company called EdAssist explored the perceptions of both employees and managers of whose responsibility it is to drive career development. The results were very interesting: 74% of employees say managers should provide professional-development training, 71% say managers should identify job [...]
Beyond the Hype Cycle: Quantifying Media Attention to Predict Technology Trends - CB Insights CB Insights Trends provides an objective, real-time, and data-driven perspective on the technologies and trends that business strategists, chief innovation officers, R&D leaders, product marketers, emerging technology teams, investors, and governments should consider in developing their strategies and responses to emerging [...]