I don’t have the habit of ripping another blogpost content, but found this post by Kelly Waters just too good not to pass on.
Enjoy.
Archive for the ‘Jokes’ Category
Gotta laugh some day
Posted by Christophe on May 13, 2009
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Bill Gates, The Beetles and Mozart
Posted by Christophe on March 10, 2009
What do Bill Gates, The Beetles and Mozart have in common?
They all super achieved.
Why?
Because they all were born geniuses?
Not necessarily.
Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, exposes in his newly released book Outliers: The Story of Success a very different reality.
According to Gladwell, extraordinary success is related to
- a variety of social aspects – the period someone is born into, the surrounding culture, availability of opportunities, connections and luck
- the sheer amount of work in a field done at an early age – 10,000 concentrated hours
The bottom line is that practice, practice, practice, and more practice is necessary for high performance.
As a leader, are you creating a framework for repeat practice?
As a team member, are you relentlessly paying your 10,000 hour dues?
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Dilbert – Changing requirements
Posted by Christophe on January 8, 2009
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Requirements gone wild
Posted by Christophe on April 27, 2008
Stories are pointers to conversations. But why use pointers when everything can be written done and followed to the letter?
When requirements go wild…
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Dilbert – Agile Programming
Posted by Christophe on November 30, 2007
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Management lesson from 2 letters
Posted by Christophe on October 7, 2007
“One new leader of his country found on his desk two letters from his predecessor, numbered 1 and 2 and to be opened in the case of the first emergency and the second. Well, the first emergency happened. The new leader opened the first envelope and the letter said, “blame me.” He did; his people bought it. Life went on. A year later another emergency hit. He opened the second envelope and the letter said, “now sit down and write two letters.”
This wouldn’t be that funny if this wasn’t happening so frequently.
New manager comes in.
Changes things his way.
Team fails.
Blames predecessor.
Moves on.
So what does new manager ought to do? Maybe nothing — besides listening.
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