Forming teams centered around specific disciplines becomes important when the communication and coordination among the current set of people gets unwieldy. It is often hard to tell when this point has been reached from inside the company, but it almost always happens at the point when daily interaction is required between eight to ten people […]

Compassion is crucial and necessary, but religion as a vehicle for it is fundamentally flawed. There is no grounding in fact, so the ease of reinterpretation leads directly to misinterpretation.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt An effective leader is not an autocrat. The best leaders who build the most support and achieve the most lasting success […]

Your screeching smoke detector wakes you up and you smell smoke. Adrenaline is pumped throughout your system and you’re on your feet at the doorway, staring at a hazy room with flames in the background. What are you doing to make this situation better?
You’re at a family gathering during the holidays. Everyone is having a […]

Somehow it still isn’t understood that programmers don’t produce their best work during any specific set of hours or only when they are in the office. Programming is an activity cognitively closer to philosophizing than it is to elementary math or physics. The best work doesn’t get done between 9am and lunch, with Sue from […]