The Myth of Managed Multi-tasking
January 10, 2008
The Myth of Managed Multi-tasking - More on multi-tasking, via Jack Vinson. Read More →
The Customer Collective
January 7, 2008
The Customer Collective -- A multi-blog on sales and marketing. Read More →
What have you changed your mind about? Why?
January 2, 2008
What have you changed your mind about? Why? -- This year's Edge annual question. Good reading for another year. Read More →
Seven Years of Blogging
December 27, 2007
Seven Years of Blogging -- Just realized that this Focused Performance blog is seven years old today. In the Catholic upbringing of my childhood, 7 years was the "age of reason", after which one is responsible for their action and needs to start going... Read more...
Behavior is not Performance
December 9, 2007
Behavior is not Performance -- From Blogspotting - BusinessWeek:"Does a company evaluate workers by their performance? If so, it shouldn’t need to monitor their behavior."Influence performance-enhancing behavior, probably. Encourage responsible behavior,... Read more...
On Design and Marketing
December 6, 2007
On Design and Marketing --From Phillipe Starck's talk at TED 2007......there are different types of design. The one, we can call it the cynical design, that means the design invented by Raymond Loewy in the '50s, who said, what is ugly is a bad sale,... Read more...
Update: Book on TOC and Services
November 16, 2007
Update: Book on TOC and Services -- So I received Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints the other day. So far, I've read the first "Foundations" section with it's Introduction and chapters on... Read more...
ZETA INTERACTIVE :: WHAT’S NEXT.
November 16, 2007
ZETA INTERACTIVE :: WHAT'S NEXT. -- I've joined a new company without changing jobs.DigitalGrit, where I've been since 2004, has, along with it's sister companies at Adverb Media, been bought and combined with the e-mail house Zustek, to form Zeta Interactive,... Read more...
Want to get into MIT?
October 7, 2007
Want to get into MIT? -- in 1869? Check out the entrance exams.Does MIT require an entrance exam today?The English exam, in particular, intrigues me. Assuming it's updated to include a bit more in the way of American and World literature and writers rather... Read more...
New Book on TOC for Service Businesses
September 14, 2007
New Book on TOC for Service Businesses -- I'll be interested in this one -- supposed to be available at the end of September. Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints I've pre-ordered, and will... Read more...