Montag, Juni 30, 2008

Kapitale Fehlentscheidung

Recently I’ve been bumping into more and more people who’ve either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google.

Quelle: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft

Richtig. Es soll ja im April 1945 auch noch Idioten gegeben haben, die der sowjetischen Armee desertiert und sich der deutschen Wehrmacht angeschlossen haben ...

Microsoft ist ein aufgeblähtes, bürokratisches Unternehmen, das mittelmässig bis grottenschlechte Software für ein längst vergangenes Jahrhundert produziert - ich sehe nicht, wie sich das in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen ändern soll.

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Sonntag, Juni 01, 2008

Grau-schwarze Westen in deutschen Chefetagen

Erst VW, dann Siemens, nun Telekom: Es läuft etwas schief in deutschen Chefetagen.

[...] Dort hat sich ganz offensichtlich eine Denke entwickelt, die sich zunehmend entfernt von Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Die jüngsten Unternehmensskandale lassen gar keinen anderen Schluss zu.

[...] Es zeigt in einem Teil der Wirtschaftselite eine große Verachtung für den Staat, dessen Spielregeln und dessen Repräsentanten.

Etliche Manager verstehen nicht oder wollen nicht verstehen, dass Politik anders funktioniert als ein Konzern. In einem Unternehmen kann man von oben nach unten durchregieren. In einem demokratischen Staat mit seinen Parteien, Interessengruppen und Verfassungsgerichten funktioniert das nicht.

Quelle: FTD.de - Kolumnen - Kolumne - Andreas Theyssen: Uns kann keiner - Seite 1 von 2

Fehlt eigentlich nur noch ein Steuerskandal mit Mittelsmännern in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein ...

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Montag, Mai 05, 2008

Riecht ihr das Startup?

One guy, I think it was TechCrunch’s Ouriel Ohayon, said he likes to visit startups to “smell the startup.” [...]

Other journalists have told me they get nervous about a company if they claim to be a software house, yet there are too many “pretty people” running around. Engineers are rarely pretty. Or, if they are too scripted. Or if they have ostentatious offices. Startups should be in pretty cheap surroundings.

[...] back to the smell of the startup. The offices were in a low-cost place. They had what looked like used furniture. Clearly no expense had been overdone. And the people we met were geeky, passionate, and not very good on camera. Makes my job a little tougher, but tells me that we were in front of the real deal, not some dance and pony show. Funny, the same CEO even does his own videos on its Web site, along with the same cruddy furniture.

Quelle: The smell of a good startup

Wenn das Startup dann irgendwann mal den Schritt in die mittlere Reife gemacht hat und sich einen eigenen Büro-Komplex aus dem Boden stampft, hat man dann einen etwas grösseren Spielraum:

Then there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created this big atrium area, which seems initially like a waste of space. The reason he did it was that everybody goes off and works in their individual areas. People who work on software code are here, people who animate are there, and people who do designs are over there. Steve put the mailboxes, the meetings rooms, the cafeteria, and, most insidiously and brilliantly, the bathrooms in the center — which initially drove us crazy — so that you run into everybody during the course of a day. [Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.

Quelle: Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation

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Samstag, April 12, 2008

Wieso PC-Supporter so verhasst sind

[...] what happens is that the more talented and effective IT engineers are the ones most likely to leave — to evaporate, if you will. They are the ones least likely to put up with the frequent stupidities and workplace problems that plague large organizations; they are also the ones most likely to have other opportunities that they can readily move to.

What tends to remain behind is the ‘residue’ — the least talented and effective IT engineers. They tend to be grateful they have a job and make fewer demands on management; even if they find the workplace unpleasant, they are the least likely to be able to find a job elsewhere. They tend to entrench themselves, becoming maintenance experts on critical systems, assuming responsibilities that no one else wants so that the organization can’t afford to let them go.

Quelle: The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect

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