You are Selling the Incentives Wrong

Do you know Maslows pyramid of Needs? No? Great, because it is all wrong anyway. At least the pyramid part is wrong. But chances are even if you don’t know Maslow and his pyramid you might be using it, and probably using the part that is wrong. So let’s start with the pyramid. In 1954 [...]

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Getting Stuff Done

Once upon a time I was a little software developer underling. When I was done with something I walked to my boss and said “Hey boss, what shall I do?” and my boss said “Go write that program”. And I wrote that program until I was done, just to start over. But these simple times [...]

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Fighting the Financial Crisis

Just in case you haven’t noted, we are in or are slithering into a recession, depending on what industrial sector you depend on most. Although automobile industry is pretty dominant over here, recession hasn’t hit me personal. But I remember the dot com crash in earlier this millennium very well. My employer went out of [...]

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