I’m always interested in the office politics/keeping employees happy debate. I’ve read in the past Ricardo Semlar’s book Maverick (highly recommended – Amazon it) and it struck a chord with its stories of employee autonomy and self-determination. I struggle however to translate that ethos into other business situations. I guess
Tomorrow is day one of the Small Business Expo, I’ll be attending and will blog my impressions. It’s been a full on year what with export year and all the other love fests (no disrespect to anyone of course) I’m hoping the SBE will be a worthwhile and valuable event
I just read this post from the president of Atlassian (the Atlassian boys were at Morgo). Makes one think about the bigger philosophical things in life and obtaining some work life balance doesn’t it. I’m leaving early this afternoon to go with the boys to swimming lessons – family comes
Following on from my post about Xero’s general release, and some comments I received in response, I got to thinking about peoples expectations. People generally and people in NZ specifically. We seem to have this attitude that everything should happen yesterday (and I’m restless and as guilty of this as
News this week that the Fonterra estimated milk solids payout to farmers is looking to go stratospheric and pump billions of dollars into our economy. There has been plenty of discussion about the downstream effects of this. Farmers are, as expected, downplaying the windfall and just talking about debt reduction,
Rod posted over here about some things he can do with his home network now that he has an airport extreme box. It got me thinking….. I have just moved from a desktop at home/desktop at work model to using a laptop and backing up to my former primary home
http://lancewiggs.com/2007/08/24/why-xero-exists/ You cannot believe how hot under the collar I get about this……
Xero investors and the NZX received a press release this morning advising that Xero have got systems place such that they can now offer Xero as a general release product. While this is an incremental step, it is an important one as it shows the Xero road map (in terms
IBM has acquired WebDialogs. An interesting move – IBM isn’t a traditional software enterprise – they’re a traditional enterprise but not a traditional enterprise one. I’ve posted in the past going out on a limb saying that it’ll be very difficult for traditional software companies to become viable and sustainable
Interesting article this morning stating that for the first time ever, it looks likely that wine export earnings will outstrip wool export earnings this year. Leaving aside the earnings gained from adding value to wool (taking a raw material, and creating a top end fashion garment from it - a
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