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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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Jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago…

I recently stumbled across a post that described jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago and was fascinated to discover that what I do now is one of them. The extract below is from the original post. I don’t know … Continue reading

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Data Acquisition hardware

I know I have talked about this before but I recently rediscovered how incredibility cost effective current mobile device are as data acquisition devices. The world is scrambling to create an “Internet of connected things” with custom built hardware, but … Continue reading

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Could I borrow a cup of Internet?

So you move into a new neighborhood and it is taking the local service provider longer than usual to get your new service turned up. You could get a wireless service but the reception on your cell phone at home … Continue reading

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