amazon mockery

Submitted by stewart robinson on February 18, 2007 - 00:00

My on time and on target manager book is erm delayed.....

Dear Customer,

We wanted to give you an update on the status of your order.

We are sorry to report that the following items have been delayed.

Kenneth H. Blanchard (Author), Steve Gottry (Author) "The On-time,

On-target Manager (One Minute Manager)" [Hardcover]

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

 

Lighting fires

Submitted by stewart robinson on February 7, 2007 - 00:00
Charlie Brooker lit a fire on the commentisfree blog on The Guardian. His post attacked mac users more than macs. It is worth a read. At the time of writing the comment count is 778 with 695 blogs linking to that article. It's a touchy subject. I guess this post will be 696. People have very strong opinions on mac vs pc. I think that they both have a

Yahoo pipes and The Economist

Submitted by stewart robinson on February 7, 2007 - 00:00

My first mistake

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 30, 2007 - 00:00

We've started.....

two days left as Development Manager/ Technical Architect at the Economist Group

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 25, 2007 - 00:00

..Before I start as generic member of projectredstripe.
It's interesting. I am being sidelined here through design to watch
the things that depend on me fall correctly into someone else hand.
They aren't replacing me with another manager as it's only a secondment.
They have the money to, but they are spending it on a developer for
Economist.com instead. All of my permanent staff and one contractor are
taking more responsibility. Should be fine here. I've left lots of

Killings ideas

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 20, 2007 - 00:00

From page 56 of sticky wisdom.

The great innovation handbook…
Don’t kill ideas, these phrases are key killers of ideas.

1. Yes, but

2. We’ve tried it before

3. That won’t work because

4. Have you really thought about the implications

5. We don’t have time for this right now

Ludwig

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 18, 2007 - 00:00

This is Ludwig, one of the people I will work with.

The beginnings of innovation

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 18, 2007 - 00:00

Today already after reading only one chapter of the book Sticky wisdom
I felt myself looking at the design of the Economist.com, CFO.com and
CFOEurope.com common web platform in a different light. That book can
screw with your head. I had an idea today just from one chapter that I
wouldn't have had without it.

Reading material

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 17, 2007 - 00:00

This is the reading material I need to get through before the 29th.
I have to bring back one key message from each text to tell to the team.

1. Sticky Wisdom (?What If! ISBN, ISBN-10: 1841120219)

What you should take away from reading the (whole) book:

Futureblog/lovesounds

Submitted by stewart robinson on January 17, 2007 - 00:00

I want to blog for the next six months heavily. Remembering that I will
be the only person to ever read this I feel I need to blog to take note
of the amazing journey I will be on. I'll be starting a company or at
least trying with someone else's money.

Maybe I'll turn it into a book if we become a google.

Syndicate content