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Seth Godin on the only possible response

Neal Enssle — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:35:58 +0000

“The only possible response… isn’t.”

— Seth Godin, http://sethgodin.typepad.com

Excuses

Neal Enssle — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:47:06 +0000

“Excuses sound like they feel.”

— Rands in Repose

DeMarco: Organizational learning

Neal Enssle — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:15:34 +0000

“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”

— Tom DeMarco

Carnegie: Success is about people

Neal Enssle — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:43:12 +0000

“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

Jobs: Innovation dollars

Neal Enssle — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:00:48 +0000

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

— Steve Jobs

Spolsky: Rocket scientists in kindergarten

Neal Enssle — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:17:01 +0000

“Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning.”

— Joel Spolsky

Galbraith: Stupid people in large groups

Neal Enssle — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:08:49 +0000

“Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Woodward: Defiance of management

Neal Enssle — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:06:34 +0000

“All good work is done in defiance of management.”

— Bob Woodward

Guthrie: Quality

Neal Enssle — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:11:37 +0000

“There is an old saying with software that three years from now, no one will remember if you shipped an awesome software release a few months late. What customers will still remember three years from now is if you shipped a software release that wasn’t ready a few months too soon. It takes multiple product releases to change people’s quality perception about one bad release.”

— Scott Guthrie