The T-shirt test is an interesting idea to see how proud you are about your organization. I don´t know if Jurgen Appelo invented the test but it was in his book “Workouts” I read about it. Continue reading “The T-shirt test – can you pass it?”
Month: August 2015
The Best Recruiter at Google – 3 important points
Here is a interesting video around recruiting philosophy at Google. The presenter is Laszlo Bock whom works as a senior Vice President of People Operations at Google. Google is one of my favorite companies, and not just the tech the produce but as much their ideas on how to run a company. Continue reading “The Best Recruiter at Google – 3 important points”
Bottom-up appraisals, to break habitual patterns
As a manager one of many responsibility you have is to make at least an annually appraisals. It´s both hard and difficult to make this performance reviews fruitful for all involved. Continue reading “Bottom-up appraisals, to break habitual patterns”
Alienation – work, at its best, is what makes us human
“work, at its best, is what makes us human, it fulfills our species essence. Work allows us to live, to be creative, to flourish. But the reality it that work destroy workers”
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Fedex day – 24 hours to delivering a project
I stumbled on an article from the software company Atlassian which have an interesting method to create something new and innovative. They call it a Fedex day, I just must try this. Continue reading “Fedex day – 24 hours to delivering a project”
The 70/20/10 rule @ Google
“WE SPEND 70 PERCENT OF OUR TIME ON CORE SEARCH AND ADS. WE SPEND 20 PERCENT ON ADJACENT BUSINESSES, ONES RELATED TO THE CORE BUSINESSES IN SOME INTERESTING WAY. Continue reading “The 70/20/10 rule @ Google”
Look for the lurkers to hire
In the excellent book “Finding the next Steve Jobs” the authors Nolan Bushnell “founder of Atari” and Gene Stone describes 52 different ideas and tip for how to Find, Keep and Nurture talent. Continue reading “Look for the lurkers to hire”