Book Short: Required Reading The Leadership Pipeline, by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel, should be required reading for any manager at any level in any organization, although it’s most critical for CEOs, heads of HR, and first-time managers. Just ask my Leaderhip Team at Return Path, all of whom just had to read the book and join in a discussion of it! The book is easy to read, and it’s a great hands-on playbook for dealing with what the authors call the six leadersihp passages: From Individual Contributor to Manager (shift from doing work to getting work done through others) From Manager to Manager of Managers (shift to pure management, think beyond the function) From Manager of Managers…
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New Media Deal – a comment
New Media Deal – a comment A user calling him or herself “graciouswings” (who left a bogus email address with his/her comment, so I couldn’t email him/her) made a lengthy comment to my New Media Deal posting (posting here, comment at the bottom or here). The meat of the comment was: “advertising doesn’t bug us if it’s not too intrusive and if there’s something in it for us as consumers.” This is simply not true. This notion is based on unfair playing grounds. People don’t like seeing commercials before movies. People _are_ bugged by having to create an account at every website they visit, whether it’s to post a comment, purchase a song, ask a question of tech support, read…
links for 2005-12-06
Feld Thoughts Brad talks about comp for outside Board members (tags: Entrepreneur compensation)
links for 2005-12-02
Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees Good quick point of view on what makes a great employee in a startup. (tags: Entrepreneur VC)
links for 2005-11-26
This is going to be BIG! – I noticed that you are also not using LinkedIn Charlie O’Donnell from Union Square Ventures has a great post about LinkedIn, its limitations, and some things it could do to be MUCH cooler and more useful. (tags: VC Technology Media Social_Networking)
links for 2005-11-16
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » They’re meltinggggg Jeff Jarvis on Why We’re Glad We’re New Media…good stats on all the troubles facing “old media” nowadays (box office, newspapers, music, radio, books) (tags: Technology Media) Our Customer Is The Entrepreneur | Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson on how VCs relate to entrepreneurs vs. their limited partners. They should think of entrepreneurs as their customers, and think of LPs as shareholders. (tags: VC Technology Entrepreneur)
Hackoff – The Blook, Part II
Hackoff – The Blook, Part II A few weeks back, I posted about a new blook (book delivered in single episodes via blog) called Hackoff.com – An Historic Murder Mystery Set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble, by Tom Evslin. A few weeks into it, and I’m hooked. It’s: – complete and total brain candy, or mental floss as Brad calls it – a great 2 minute break in the middle of the day (episodes are delivered once a day during the week) – a very entertaining reminder about some of the wacky things that went on back in the Internet heyday – a good look into some of the processes that go on behind the scenes in taking a…
A Good Laugh at Microsoft’s Expense
A Good Laugh at Microsoft’s Expense Anyone who has ever had a frustrating moment with any Microsoft product (um, that probably means everyone) must watch this 4 minute video. Thanks to my colleague Carly Brantz for turning me on to this gem. Update: new link for this video as of June 18, 2006 here.
links for 2005-10-23
Return Path Solutions for Increased Email Delivery, Performance Return Path’s newly unveiled web site is now a blog, with an online resource center for email marketers and postings by its executive team (tags: Blog Email Email_Marketing Marketing Return_Path ReturnPath)
links for 2005-10-22
Soup for Nuts From our client, Business & Legal Reports, a HILARIOUS read in the strange-but-true category. This is essential reading for any manager who has ever mediated an employee dispute. Tthanks to Tami Forman for citing this one! (tags: Humor)
links for 2005-10-20
eDork: Topic Today: Harvey Balls Get your mind out of the gutter! These are very useful and oddly hard to find graphics for doing checklists in presentations (thanks to my colleague George Bilbrey for this link). (tags: Graphics)