Every so often people ask me for career guidance. I guess I’ve done pretty well charting my own career path, so far at least, and folks want to know the ins and outs. Well, here’s a shortish post that captures…
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Book Report: Escape Velocity
“What if there is some hidden force that is working against your best efforts? What if this force is operating inside your own company, with the full support of your executive team, your board of directors, your investors, and indeed…
Tagged with: asymmetry, Category Maturity Life Cycle, Clayton Christensen, complex systems, Escape Velocity, Geoffrey Moore, Google, HBR, inertia, innovation, portfolio management, provocation-based selling, roadmap, target market initiatives, technology, Technology Adoption Life Cycle, The Innovator's Dilemma, Three Horizons Model, vision, volume architecture, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Contributing to Company Values
A friend/former colleague of mine is starting a company, and from the outset he wants to codify values by which the organization will be run. After drafting a proposed set of values and principles, he reached out to a few…
Tagged with: accountability, Agilicus, bike-shedding, change, conversations, decision-making, discipline, hierarchy, just enough process, meetings, micromanagement, prioritization, return on energy, values
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: The Inner Lives of Markets
“Markets are a means of resource allocation, and often a really effective one at that. But they’re not good for everything – or at least not without a lot of engineering and tweaking. That’s something both free-market advocates, as well…
Tagged with: Adwords, auctions, Champagne fairs, deferred acceptance, economics, fundamental attribution error, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, lemons, markets, models, Pierre Azoulay, platforms, progress, Ray Fisman, Robert Shiller, Scale, signals, streaming, The Inner Lives of Markets, Tim Sullivan, Vickrey auction, William Vickrey, World War 2
Posted in Books, Everything, Marketing, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Marketing, Math and Science
What’s in a name? A curiously long post about naming things.
I cannot stress this point enough: everything needs a name! And everything will get a name, whether consciously (i.e., thought went into it) or not (i.e., whatever term happened to pop into someone’s head when he entered it into a…
Tagged with: decision-making, differentiation, hierarchies, IANAL, models, naming, product management, product marketing, QualityGuard, SandScript, Sandvine, technology
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Marketing
A Naming Success Story for the Ages
When you come up with the right name, it’s like that name was there all along, and all you had to do was look in its direction, then it’d march right up, shake your hand, introduce itself, and smack you…
Tagged with: chili, competition, Don Bowman, JavaScript, Matt Trushinski, naming, PCRF, product marketing, SandScript, Sandvine, Sanskrit, technology
Posted in Careers, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Marketing
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