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Ha! I KNEW Peter Drucker was Wrong!
I wasn’t going to write about this, but it was such a juicy tidbit, I just had to pass it along. So I looked at all of my colleagues, who begged me to keep it quiet, I looked them straight in the eye and told them, frankly, to buzz off. This is an exceedingly valuable tip for small businesses, I just couldn’t in good conscience keep it a secret.
Peter Drucker declared, in one of the most important chapters of his landmark volume The Effective Executive:
Effective executives know that time is the limiting factor. The output limits of any process are set by the scarcest resource. In the process we call “accomplishment,” this is time.
Life’s Too Short for the Wrong Job
Humor
Alex Kjerulf posted a bunch of photos of a bunch of ads for a German job-ad site. The concept is: What if every vending machine had a wage slave inside doing all the actual work? The tag line is “Life’s too short for the wrong job.” Click here to see the ads.
-TimK
I Finally Threw My Apple Mighty Mouse Across the Room
For software developers, the new Intel Macs are the best thing since sliced bread. And someday maybe I’ll write a blog post listing all the reasons why. Of course, Apple has already highlighted some of the reasons in their ads, including that it has all the power of *nix and can run Windows software. Who can turn down a combo like that? (But some of Apple’s ads stretch the truth, at best. For example, my Mac crashes about as often as a Windows box.)
When I struck out on my own last November, I got a MacBook Pro to develop software with. And ever since then, I’ve had everything I’ve needed right at my fingertips. And I’ve been generally happy with my purchase. (Read more…)
I’ve Been So Busy…
- … I have over 30,000 unread posts in my feed reader.
- … I haven’t read Dilbert for over a month.
- … I have to schedule appointments with my wife.
- … Some people have e-mailed me three times, and I still haven’t gotten back to them.
- … I’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to read a good book.
