Continuing the risk theme from yesterday’s post… I saw a nice little post (here), that uses an example from the world of NCAA basketball office pools to great effect. Many of us are willing to brush off easy opportunities to lock in gains — insuring winnings via a hedge in this case — while at the [...]
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.
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As my wife and I looked at our relocation, one of our biggest fears was that we would not find satisfactory housing quickly. It had taken six months of sustained househunting to find our current home, which we ended up building (it was part of an established development). Our experience led us to worry that [...]
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Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.
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Second-guessing oneself is a risk when deciding to leave a leading company, so I needed to ensure that I had no regrets when I left SAP. In particular, I didn’t want short-term personal or “micro” stumbling blocks to obscure great “macro” opportunities in the rest of SAP. Unfortunately, there were too many big picture concerns that nagged at [...]
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There are only two industries that refer to their customers as “users”.
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As promised, I’d like to outline some of the reasons why I moved to Mead Johnson. There are several big picture or macro reasons why the move appealed to me: Engagement in standing up an “new” company. MJN just had an IPO as a carve out of Bristol Myers Squibb. While I’ve had a bit of [...]
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The problem of software process change is often complicated by the fact that no one is responsible to make it happen…. If it is important enough to do, however, someone must be assigned the responsibility and given the necessary resources. Until this is done, software process development will remain a nice thing to do someday, [...]
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Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois.
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