I just read this article on OPEN Forum by the Behance team title Can Good Teamwork Involve Fighting? Great article!
I think fighting is an integral part of a strong team — with a few caveats, of course. Here’s some thoughts on how to encourage productive fighting for the betterment of the team or project.
1) [...]
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It’s helpful for our daily motivation to keep in mind why we do the work we do. Maybe it’s to feed our families or to change the world or to be filthy rich. No matter what the reasons are, keeping the reasons we go in to work everyday front of mind helps us do a [...]
I’ve worked in IT for nearly 10 years now. First as a help desk operator, then a Linux sysadmin, and now a Drupal developer/webmaster. In that time, I’ve run into a handful of really perplexing problems. ”Perplexing” meaning after hours (usually, days) of troubleshooting, I can’t figure out why the system is suddenly unstable.
You know [...]
As I read Fred Wilson’s commentary on the Ideal First Round Term Sheet, I was thinking that it’d be nice if there was a “for dummies” type of introduction to the term sheet. A term sheet is the contract between the entrepreneur/company and the investors/VC. It’s full of jargon that a first-time entrepreneur, who is [...]
Yammer has a new desktop client.
I like that you can pop out threads into new, separate windows. Handy for keeping track of a particular conversation. Best of the new features.
The new client feels snappier because your own updates are posted immediately in the client. The sluggishness of the old client had me looking at Present.ly.
I [...]
I know you have a lot of awesome ideas in your head. Maybe you have several projects deep into development. There’s a ton of potential there. Just imagine the benefits!
Problem is, all we can do is imagine it. It doesn’t exist unless it’s out there, live for the world to play [...]
I’m rereading Seth Godin’s The Bootstrapper’s Bible via DailyLit. I read the book 3 years ago from cover to cover before we launched Killer Aces.
I’m not sure how much I absorbed back then, reading the book before having started a company. Rereading it now, I see that some of the Bootstrapper’s Manifesto has stuck with [...]
Productivity, work-life balance, saying no… these are things I’m always struggling with. Always have, but hopefully not always will.
It’s gotten harder since I started working for myself (and my two partners) instead of a boss. Because now, I’m in charge of my own todo list. This is scary. Left to my own [...]
The “whoever’s there” conversations that occur in hallways, around a person’s desk, or in the break room are critical components of a company’s culture.
And a company’s culture is its soul. Success or failure starts there. So, you know, this meaningless banter is actually pretty important.
When everyone’s working remotely, it can be easy to lose that daily [...]
I just discovered Google Chart API. You can create charts on-the-fly by manipulating a url. This is way easier (and prettier) than the PHP library I was going to use.
Once again I’m very impressed with Google.
(Big hat tip to Stack Overflow for already having the answer to my question about easiest way to create charts [...]
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