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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 7

This book can be purchased at: http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 6 “If you are a butcher, everything is a piece of meat” The title for this chapter has to do with high tech leaders and their … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 6

This book can be purchased at: http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 5 “Lost in the translation” This chapter starts with a spoiler, “Strategy is critical.” Those three words are what the chapter is all about. Everyone, at … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 5

This book can be purchased at: http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 4 “Is the vehicle more important than the destination?” This chapter has a lot of material and I am just going to consider the part on … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 4

This book can be purchased at: http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 3 “Empathy and Sympathy – Know the difference”. This chapter is about a special kind of ineffective leader that I call “An empty suit”. You would … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 3

This book can be purchased at http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 2 “Average Leadership”. This chapter is about leadership and some of the strange things that companies do to develop their leaders. Lets start with a quote. … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 2

This book can be purchased at http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today I would like to finish my comments on Chapter one “Painting the Titanic”. This chapter is about what to watch for with respect to ineffective management. As a founder at Newbridge I … Continue reading

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 1

When I was out visiting my brother in Vancouver this past summer he gave me a copy of a book written by the current CTO of Tellus, Ibrahim Gedeon. I finished the book yesterday and thought that it might be … Continue reading

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More on Blue Oceans

I briefly mentioned in a earlier post that I was reading a book called “Blue Ocean Strategy” by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. The book touches on many different aspects of creating a winning business and contains some thought … Continue reading

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“Traditional marketing is dead!!!

It should not come as a surprise that traditional marketing has become less effective in this new Internet driven era. The following is a quote from a harvard business study by Bill Lee. “First, buyers are no longer paying much … Continue reading

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A new way to sell

The way most companies get their message out has traditionally been through marketing programs and feet on the street. That seems to be changing for alot of companies as they employ web based tools like GoogleTrends, GoogleAutoComplete, YahooBuzzLog, YahooClues, BingTrends, … Continue reading

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