When you read a lot of books on success or watch a lot of videos about self-improvement and the like, like I do, you probably have heard about the “compound effect”. I don’t mean the book, I mean t… | Continue reading
Some years ago I had a realization: There are people who play small and people who play big and I was a small game player. During my professional live I’ve worked hard on my skills, so it was not a… | Continue reading
There is an excellent TED-Talk by Rory Vaden about how to multiply your time. In short it is about investing time today in a way that will save you time tomorrow. So it is about investing time for … | Continue reading
Being in a management position will always require a person to handle multiple things at once. Usually this is a source of stress. Of course there might be some difficulties with focus keeping and … | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard it all about software quality. From the ISO criteria to test driven development, code metrics and reviews to automated system tests. It all sounds nice and appealing, and it i… | Continue reading
As Jim Collins pointed out in “Built To Last”, companies that want to be successful over a long period of time need to engineer their organization so that it consistently produces great results wit… | Continue reading
When I took over a software department several years ago and was suddenly confronted with the responsibility for a multi-million dollar budget for a really challenging project I was quite overwhelm… | Continue reading
When you are leading and not just managing people, you will need to have a good relationship with them. Although this view is controversial, I have found it much easier to motivate people, sell unp… | Continue reading
Whenever you are working on a task that actually somebody else should be working on, but this person somehow managed to transfer the task to you, you have fallen victim to monkey business. It comes… | Continue reading