It’s not in the Genes its in the Environment

A late comparision of Ruby on Rails with Open Xava demonstrates that you can develop Java based applications fast. This lead another blogger to the conclusiong that java developers do love complicated architectures. I think this view ia a little to simplistic. Java developers like fast results and progress just as all the other developers. [...]

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People are like Water

I found a new (at least for me) metaphor: people are like water. The cool thing about this metaphor is: When you manage people you can use it to learn from the engineers building channels and dams. So here are the things you can learn: If you want to stop a certain behavior, build a [...]

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How to Use Key Figures and How Not to Use Key Figures

Possibly the worst idea ever conceived in business is the idea to link payment to key figures. Why? Because it can only work for a single key figure: company profit, assuming that the main purpose of the company in question is to maximize company profit in the long run. If you link that number to [...]