“Have strong opinions, weakly held.” This is a refrain often heard in programming circles. Out of curiosity, I googled it to see if I could learn where it came from. The first hit leads to a 2006 post on Bob Sutton’s blog, where he lays out the origins of the phrase and the rational behind [...]

The idea for this post was originally going to be about business strategy.  It was going to revolve around this quote, that I found on the Contrast blog: The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. – Michael E. Porter It’s a good quote, but there’s a better one that cuts more to [...]

Any business, from a micro-ISV to Google, has to balance moving quickly against moving  recklessly. Moving recklessly leads to forgettable and bad experiences.   Functionality may be made available more quickly, but at what cost?  The interaction and interface, as well as the communication around the feature, have to be at least adequately completed, or else [...]

Transparency Kills Apathy – Clay Johnson While Clay’s quote is in relation to government transparency, it applies to all aspects of life, including business.  So often in business, management hides information from employees, when doing the opposite would be better. Transparency allows everyone to see the inner workings and to invest themselves in the process.  [...]

Here are several quotes from Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation: Teams with healthy idea life cycles are easy to spot: ideas flow between people easily and in large volumes. Teams that innovate are great places for ideas to live – like happy pets, they’re treated well, get lots of attention, and are shared among [...]