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Advice for marketing a start-up

August 31, 2008
Advice for marketing a start-up (or any other tough situation): Give yourself the same advice you'd give anyone else.
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A victim of poisonous politics

August 27, 2008
Hired, then fired along with the manager who brought him in.
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IT centralization gone wrong

August 26, 2008
When IT centralized support, support became terrible. What went wrong?
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A stalled outsourcing decision

August 24, 2008
Pragmatic criteria and techniques businesses can use to reduce the risk of a bad decision.
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Does centralized control of the enterprise eliminate politics

August 20, 2008
Comments on centralization and decentralization.
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When customers aren't particularly important

August 18, 2008
Architectural lock-in can make pleasing customers irrelevant to business success.
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How and when to speak ManagementSpeak

August 16, 2008
Adding diplomacy to difficult messages.
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A complaint about Microsoft's poor documentation

August 13, 2008
It starts with a difference between how engineers and business executives see the world
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The importance of regular project reviews

August 12, 2008
Break big projects into collections of small ones, and correct course after each project finishes.
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Ways to detect lies, distortions and other attempts to mislead

August 10, 2008
The ability to read character and detect false statements has been scientifically disproved. Here are some alternatives.
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