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Not good enough
I am currently having an unfortunate opportunity to watch yet another Phoenix project explode. Every person I spoke to on that project feels bad about what they are setting out to do and how they are going about it. Yet, the work starts on Monday as they are already behind schedule. How is that even…
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Asking for help
A lot of conflicting thoughts on this subject in my head at the moment. Let’s see if trying to put it in writing helps 🙂 There’s a big difference between asking and demanding, right? If that’s correct why so many people are not seeing that difference? I was reminded recently that a role of a…
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Don’t take shortcuts
Everyone likes quick-wins and getting there quickly. The problem with the shortcut I took recently is that it ended up not being one at all. I used a code generator to prove a point. Tempted by the initial success and quick return I then ploughed on and tried to turn this dummy application into something worth keeping forgetting…
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The Oracle
For a long time I was expecting the C people in the companies I worked for to be better, to encourage change more, to be more progressive in their thinking about managements. That changed today when I read Management 3.0 and got to the part where Jurgen says “[…] CEO of an organisation needs to…
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A start
Hi Everyone, For a very long time a friend of mine was trying to encourage me to write. I can only guess that is a rather common thing but had to be siad – thanks Clarke. This blog is going to be about making things better. You have probably read or seen similar ones and…