Ken Dyck

Nic Paton (via David V. Lorenzo):

Most workers reckon that their bosses are excessively bureaucratic, blame people wrongly and are inconsistent when it comes to making decisions, according to a damning report.

Technorati tags: management

Geoff Cook:

Highschoolstartups will not help you run your babysitting business or increase sales of your lemonade stand. We will not invent silly jargon or paint on overly optimistic picture of the brutal world of e-commerce. This site is for young people serious about starting a business on the web. You will discover nuts and bolts advice, find various methods of encouraging entrepreneurship among young people, and understand how youth can actually give you an advantage as an entrepreneur.

Technorati tags: student, startup, entrepreneurship, web

Jason Fried:

So my advice to people trying to build products is this: Give people just enough to solve their own problems their own way and then get out of their way.

Technorati tags: software, entrepreneurship, interview

All Business (via David V. Lorenzo):

While it may be true that there is no place like home, it is also true that running a home business may not be as easy as it looks. Dividing your home into a suitable location for your business, while still remaining comfortable for those living in the house, will take some careful planning.

Technorati tags: homeoffice, entrepreneurship

Jeff Cornwall:

The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship links to a new study by the Millikin Institute that ranks states on the “cost of doing business.”

Technorati tags: entrpreneurship, business

Greg Gianforte:

How do you launch a successful high-tech business? If you ask the typical MBA, they’ll give the same answer. Write a comprehensive in-depth business plan, take it to investors to secure a healthy initial round of funding, recruit the heaviest heavyweights you can, and start the PR machine cranking.

But, of course, they’d be completely wrong.

Technorati tags: bootstrapping, entrepreneurship, strategy

Jason Calacanis:

That’s what leadership is about DETAILS. As a leader you have to obsesses over the details not because you’re going to solve every problem yourself, but because you create a culture of CARING ABOUT THE DETAILS. If the CEO doesn’t care about the details why would anyone else?

Technorati tags: leadership

MindTools (via Merlin Mann):

The techniques in this chapter help you to make the best decisions possible with the information you have available. With these tools you will be able to map out the likely consequences of decisions, work out the importance of individual factors, and choose the best course of action to take.

Technorati tags: decision making, productivity

Blifaloo (via bBlog):

The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.

Warning: Sometimes Ignorance is bliss; after gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you.

Technorati tags: lying, body language, behaviour, tells

Derek Powazek:

You know you can use Technorati to find blog posts about anything and everything. But what if you don’t want blog posts – what if you want to find entire blogs about a certain subject? That’s where the new Technorati Blog Finder comes in.

Technorati tags: blogging, folksonomy