Big companies avoid buying from startups for a reason. No one wants a deal with a lean startup that can be gone in secs following the sale. This pinpoints the whole problem with the idea of a “lean business”. As far as the principle goes “lean” startups should pivot, explore and implode as frequently, and […]
Oftentimes startups fail because of the wrong type of people mixed up together. Far too often startups are built out of group of friends, people who like working together, playing games together, drinking together and socialising together, not neccessarily playing well together. Far too often startups are formed these days because it’s fashionable, comfortable, and […]
There’s an issue with some of the ill-conceived managers. Naturally any student who wants to be a manager thinks of themselves as a person in a large team, in a big office. Oddly enough this line of thinking might be also represented by some junior managers in the making. Obviously everyone wants a big and […]
Found fantstic read on managing perceptions and the feedback process based on perceptions within the company. I wish I had found this series of articles about two years earlier as they provide very good explanation of how no to manage employee feedback and explain precisely how damaging this might be to the management Three reasons […]
How do you avoid having arguments at the workplace? You don’t. It all depends how you structure the relationships at your workplace and what are the subjects of controversies. Most importantly: all depends how people treat each other and how they put their arguments forward.It’s actually good to have differences in opinions, constructive criticism, even […]
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. – Antoine de Saint Exupéry Another way to improve software management process is simply to create great teams. As previously mentioned, great teams […]
It’s inspiring to see modern management manuvering between well understood bread and butter of prioritising efforts and the managing technical complexities which have been made so pervasive by invading and dominating business models of all sizes of enterprises throughout the world. Large part of IT engineering still happens to be a black box part of […]
If you’ve ever wondered why companies with long processes are slow at not only adopting but also at improving, consider the following. For software developers, getting better at what they do requires quick feedback (positive and negative) on what has been just done. The faster you get the feedback, the faster you’ll learn. With long-cycle […]
When I was much younger than now my mum used to say that when I’ll be her age we’ll talk. This was a kind of a way of putting a lid on a conversation when it got uncomfortable the way I’ll probably do it when my kids start talking (too) much… I used to respond […]
Go around the office and you’ll find people who feel too cold and some other who feel too hot. Now, one can tell an attempted manager because he or she would ask people around if they need turning the heating up or down and do what people want. True manager however would also do that […]
