This afternoon I have been following the mis-framing of Chicago’s newly announced plan to release 10 years of… not crime statistics as has been reported, but… police incident reports. From the Boston Globe: Chicago to publish crime stats online CHICAGO—Long a city with a reputation for withholding information, Chicago now wants to make public every [...]
From the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: OPERATION HIGH HOPES Explanation and Instruction Sheet PURPOSE TO RAISE DOLLARS ($1s) for KENNEDY MATERIALS RECORDS of the Official Campaign Song HIGH HOPES and ALL THE WAY (sample enclosed) PT BOAT PINS — the Campaign Emblem in 3 different styles Lapel Pins for Men ) [...]
Rob Haitani on Palm OS from Designing Interactions: One bit of advice that I gave to people designing the Palm OS was, “If you can really understand the one thing your customer wants to do most frequently, and make that a one-step process, then I guarantee people will like the product.” Just say, “What is [...]
Colleen Dilenschneider (of the Nonprofit Millennial Alliance) recently revisited Abraham Zaleznik’s “Manager’s and Leaders” from the Harvard Business Review. I read it when I did the Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership at Boston University; it reminded me of Goofus and Gallant; but most proposals of dichotomous identities do.
I nearly always see the “Forming, Storming, Norming” team development model in use for community practice. So here are a handful more from Making Sense of Change Management by Esther Cameron and Mike Green. View the larger image or download a PDF.
Paul Graham has a new essay up on separating Maker’s Schedules from Manager’s Schedules: One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule. The manager’s schedule [...]
This venn diagram on How to be Happy in Business from Bud Caddell is making the rounds, and remember-worthy enough for me to post it here: Pair that with the other useful chart I like, Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix (or Urgent/Important Matrix)—this one from AwakeBlogger :
My RSS feeds of late have been delivering to me many interesting posts by Chris Anderson as he explores the different kinds of free. I’ve been specifically interested in his visualizations of the Advertising Model of Free: advertisers pay for advertising, which subsidizes programming, which is then given away for free, with the goal being [...]
I’ve recently come into a major upgrade in duties at my job, which has always been heavy on the Human Resources responsibilities. As it is, not only am I supervising several subordinates locally, I am also the clearing house for supervisory advice and information for our many-dozen affiliates all across the nation; like the surgeon [...]
