Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Strategy, Scalability, and Sleep Deprivation

I'd love to write more about each of these three topics, but I've blogged so infrequently, that I'm going to post three links and declare victory by just getting a post up. Here they are:

Spotlight on Scalability - Great talk by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about scaling a vision, a product, and yourself. LOVE the career advice about finding and giving solid mentoring.

Contribution Revolution - Article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cook about leveraging customer communities to deliver better products at a lower cost. Great stuff.

The Myth of the Tireless Leader - The title pretty much says it all. Timely reading for a guy who was up until 1am fighting w/ Pivot Tables of sales and defect data. Poor Larry Summers. Just this morning, I was talking to someone who sleeps quite a bit less than I do and my first reaction was the typical, "I don't know how you do it." I changed the comment, instead, to "I don't know why you do that to yourself." At the end of the day, it's a CHOICE. One that I'm going to make a little differently going forward.

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