My dad is doing an exhibition in Gothenburg, Sweden. (via David Jeffery and his ice images)
Author: Björn Jeffery
The research team studied 32 production lines for five months. On one set of randomly chosen lines, the employees worked out in the open, as they always had. On another set of lines, however, each production line was concealed behind a curtain, out of management’s view. The researchers found that simply hanging that curtain increased production by 10 to 15 percent—major information for a competitive industry that operates on razor-thin margins. Hiding From Managers Can […]
I’m starting to think that having a great manager means that you almost don’t notice him/her. I wrote a post on being or having an invisible, great, manager. Noticing a great manager — on management — Medium
Noticing a great manager
A job well done may mean being almost invisible Being a great manager is really hard. More so than I first thought since I think you more often notice the things that aren’t good, than the things that are. Think about a bad manager that you’ve had. That’s easy. Everyone has had one. Now think about a really great manager. Some of you have had them, and congratulations to you! But I suspect many find […]
The real target of the GoldieBlox lawsuit, I’m quite sure, is not the Beastie Boys. Instead, it’s the set of investors who are currently being pitched to put money into a fast-growing, Stanford-incubated, web-native, viral, aggressive, disruptive company with massive room for future growth — a company which isn’t afraid to pick fights with any big name you care to mention. Because in Silicon Valley, people will always prefer to invest in that kind of […]
(via The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF – Atlantic Mobile)
(via The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF – Atlantic Mobile)
Scaling is a matter of trust
There are numerous articles every week on how to scale and grow a company. Startup metrics, growth hacking, technology choices. While they are all important, there are many other traits that also affect the growth rate of a company. I would argue that trust is one of the most important ones. It is a recurring theme in both my own projects and others that I look at. First there is gaining, growing and keeping the […]