August, 2011

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Book review: REWORK. 12 quotes and comments

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A book straight from my heart: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson. They are the two of the people behind the company 37signals. They build products like Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Ruby on Rails and more. And they have done that with just 12 people! A fresh view on business and success. I want to share some interesting quotes from the book.

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Learning (and development) strategies how far do they reach?

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The Masie center brought out an eBook on Learning Strategies. This book was coined by an article by Gadi Amit in Fast Company. His point was that you can’t plan and create strategies beyond a 18 month window, there are just too many things you don’t know. In the Masie eBook 8 learning strategist talk about their strategy. The organizations these eight strategist work for is very different (from CIA, CNN, Waste management Inc, Shell, DIA, Eaton corporation, Farmers insurance and Lloyd

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Steve Jobs steps down: a homage

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This week Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. Due to his illness he is no longer capable to stay on. I don’t have many heroes but he is one. And not just in his role as CEO. The story of his life is fascinating. Born as an unwanted child of a teen age mother, adopted, college drop-out and then founder of Apple. Making Apple a huge success with the Apple II and the Macintosh and then he had to leave Apple in 1985.

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Reflection: my first 265 days as CEO of easygenerator

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Last week I met with a former colleague, just catching up. He made a remark about this blog. He said it had become more a marketing blog for easygenerator and less reflective than it was before. I read back some posts and he is right. I shifted (a bit) from a personal view to a corporate (easygenerator) view. So I decided that it would be a good idea to restore that balance.