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 the heart of [...]

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 the [...]

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.  It makes all [...]

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 people who [...]

A culture of trust would be the ultimate corporate environment.  Just uttering the phrase brings to mind visions of the ideal work environment.  Fill in the blanks however you see fit, but for me it would be having a say in the projects I work on and being left to my own devices to determine [...]