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3 key ingredients to your next creativity workshop 15 Apr 2013 | 10:11 am
I just got invited to a creative workshop that is supposed to synchronise ideas about a future product. When this workshop got announced it was announced to far too many people in the room with more t...
How content websites earn money by advertising simply explained 9 Apr 2013 | 10:17 am
Yesterday a colleague of mine told me a story how he explained the advertising business model to an editorial team with an analogy. It didn’t go well.. As analogies go they’re flawed and never fit a h...
Re-organizations and beaten tracks 8 Apr 2013 | 09:24 am
In front of the building of the company I work for is a small meadow with a pavement right across. Only weeks after the pavement was built you could see a beaten track starting to appear. It was very ...
Using Google Docs to automate reportings 4 Apr 2013 | 10:30 am
Managing is a lot about reporting. Either you need to report to someone or you need to get reports to base your decisions on some facts. Preparing such reports is tedious though and can be automated. ...
3 rules to deal with unclarity after re-organisations 3 Apr 2013 | 10:31 am
The company I work for is undergoing some massive re-organisation for quite some time now. Responsibilities shift from one department to another and from one person to the next. This can lead to some ...
Top 4 signs of process autism 2 Apr 2013 | 09:54 am
What is process autism? In a nutshell it’s when people are not only applying processes and following them but obeying them rigorously and dogmatically. Here are the top 4 signs that help you to spot i...
Your strategy should involve more people! 27 Mar 2013 | 07:36 am
I spent the last few days with writing strategy papers for several brands. There isn’t much time and even less data to base my conclusions on and the easiest option would be to write down my own visio...
Don’t sell before you see it! 26 Mar 2013 | 09:09 am
Yesterday I had a long and quite productive meeting. We discussed the future of a product. How it’s going to look, what it’s going to contain and how it’s going to earn money. And we had to stop peopl...
Managing is about language too 25 Mar 2013 | 10:46 am
Last week I was chatting with a friend about my step from development to management. He was interested in this because he’s a developer himself and knows how they usually are and what makes them tick....
This team was great! 22 Mar 2013 | 08:56 am
Yesterday we had a little get together. The old online team of the Financial Times Deutschland – the product people and the developers. One of the devs found the right answer to describe what everybod...
