White Elephant 2009 This year I participated in two White Elephants. One at work and one with friends. For the one with friends, I painted a chess-board onto a cheap foldable table from Walmart and created a custom knight-shaped gift box.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10 has read Lyra's Oxford: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman – //bit.ly/nSKyK # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27 has read Lost by Gregory Maguire and rated it 3 stars – //bit.ly/aONIA # Powered by Twitter Tools
Quicksilver Clipboard History Appearing Act I’ve been using Quicksilver for its clipboard manager–among other things. If you’re a developer, having a clipboard history that is easy to access adds incredibly productivity. I was having an issue where the clipboard manager would suddenly appear out of nowhere, randomly. I was able to implement a cludgy fix by docking the clipboard manager […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20 is reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller – //bit.ly/15kRSz # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13 is reading The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – //bit.ly/1CutdQ # @philatype yes, your dupes are showing! # wants to read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by TS Kuhn – //bit.ly/kVQge # Powered by Twitter Tools
Update to CiteThis! I updated my CiteThis! Firefox Extension with a few of the following features: Several updates including: Created preferences pane to allow selection of different reference styles Provided option for a customized citation string Implement some automatic author discovery for the page Improved performance by avoiding updates when hidden https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06 watch out for this site from the creator of twitter: //squareup.com/ # is reading Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Constru… by Ben Forta – //bit.ly/OyWhN # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29 has read The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan and rated it 3.5 stars – //bit.ly/UABd8 # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29 has read The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan and rated it 3.5 stars – //bit.ly/UABd8 # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22 has read Matchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire – //bit.ly/4hbnKX # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15 has read The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert – //bit.ly/1qhMC # Powered by Twitter Tools
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail Notes on: Kotter, J. P. (2007). “Leading change: why transformation efforts fail.” Harvard Business Review, January 2007, 96-103 Transformation efforts go by many names TQM Reengineering Rightsizing Restructuring Cultural change Turnaround Key general lessons Change involves series of steps. Do not skip the steps! Mistakes in any phase can have devastating effects Errors Lack of […]
Saving the Business Without Losing the Company Notes on: Ghosn, C. (2002). “Saving the Business Without Losing the Company.” Harvard Business Review, January 2002, p 37-45. Intro Renault Nissan Merger Ghosn natural candidate Cleaned up failed merger with Volvo Nissan unprofitable for 8 yrs “do-or-die situation” (p 38) retain self-esteem of employees Plan involve Nissan’s own managers Cross-functional teams company culture important […]
