Bloat compounds. — This article by Tom Meyvis and Heeyoung Yoon summarizes the challenge anyone building products faces: When an incoming university president requested suggestions for changes that would allow the university to better serve its students and community, only 11% of the responses involved removing an existing regulation, practice or programme. Similarly…

Here’s how to avoid the common pitfalls and self-sucker-punches of negotiating raises for your most strategically valuable employees. — Don’t play the credentials card. Credentials have their place, and that place is at the front door, on the way in. Don’t use the lack of an MBA, or some other certification as justification for a lower increase. Unless the the certification is a legal or statutory requirement the only credential that really matters to…

Once again, the world moves forward thanks to the work of a fool. Someone whom had a crazy idea; was scoffed, was punished for their audacity, and whom – it transpires – was right. We’d do well to remind ourselves that today’s fool might just be tomorrow’s saviour.

My process: Make a thing. Change it. Now I have two things. One of these two things is better, both in total and in any particular detail. I try to notice these differences and amplify the good parts. Then I go back, make another thing, and repeat the process. I’m…

This tweet summarizes a complex topic that I’ve been grappling with over the course of the last few years. How does a leader walk the tight-rope of building a product that is both qualitatively and quantitatively successful? I’m not entirely sure if there are many leaders for whom both carry…

There is a time to learn and a time to unlearn. There is a time to choose the path less travelled and a time to drift in the slipstream of the peloton. There is a time to hold the weight of two opposing ideas in open palms, and…

Facebook to take on Wix, Godaddy with free website builder offer (Image credit: Shutterstock) Facebook has increased its investment in its suite of business tools, including a new…www.techradar.com Partners stab you in the front. First Facebook flatters you, then they kill you. TechCrunch reports that big blue is getting into hosting using WhatsApp for Business as the carrot. Tech Radar goes further, saying they’ve got their sights on websites next — where they’ve been building partnerships for years with the very companies they’re now…

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