Planning is the Death of Any Project

Are you able to make a pot of coffee? I guess you are. At least until you try to plan it. Here is the first version of a plan to make coffee: put a filter in the coffee machine put coffee in the filter put water in the coffee machine switch the coffee machine on [...]

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What Media Overload are you Talking About?

When the discussion comes to Twitter, Facebook and Co. sooner or later somebody will state that all this stuff is just causing media overload. “People will drown in information!” they claim. Maybe I am a little slow, but I don’t get it. Just a quick glance around in a normal wood (that’s the areas with [...]

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You should Provide a Service, not a Defense

Let’s assume you are manager (or just part of) a small department. The task of the department is to make sure that everybody in the company is using Grglwup for wumpeling and does so in the correct way. What do you do to achieve that? The approach I see most of the times lets me [...]

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