Identifying which part of your project is hard is, paradoxically, not so easy, because we work to hide the hard parts,If you market cigarettes aggressively, are you responsible for people dying of lung cancer? You keep getting better at the route you cover, but it doesn't go anywhere, you just keep doing it over and over,Once you knew the color of where you were going, you'd just naturally scan for it
I also think it's fine for risk-takers and skilled pros to make a ton of money,Richard was telling me that he doesn't care what his customers think I don't think it should matter whether or not you're trying to make a profit,Woodpulp, printing presses, typesetting machines, delivery trucks, those stands on the street and the newsstand
What they missed is that this asset is a choice, not an accident,I apologize to those of you that weren't able to get a set Given the choice, people seek out what's just right for them to consume,These are smart, motivated and really nice people who are happy to talk with you about what they want and what they believe
One school of thought is to measure everything,I mean labor as in skilled workers solving interesting problems Before that, on Friday, October 8, I'll be in Atlanta,Twitter is really easy to use the first few times, so not so much red ink there
Sure, you can try to minimize the cost of change, and you might even get the number to 1%,Most of that money is spent on traditional items purchased in traditional ways The internet has transformed the software industry in two vaguely related ways:1,In other words, don't focus so much on starting something
Anyway, near the beginning of most of these comics was a scene where a stranger would meet the team,Creative for you, because you've never been in that territory before, it's all new, it's all at the edges Most of us don��t deserve the great opportunities we have, or the lucky breaks that got us here,It's very easy to plot a course for today that minimizes the chance of disappointment or bad outcomes or lousy luck
The best ones provide a differentiated service that is worth paying for,You can't skate by when you refuse to mimic a professional As long as there have been people who want to get rich, there have been get rich quick schemes,From the start, you have to choose a path and stick with it
The problem with this mindset is that as you approach the asymptote of maximum efficiency, there's not a lot of room left for improvement,If you worked on the line, we cared about your productivity, not your smile or approach to the work Copying a book cover or a business card or a mayo label isn't good taste, it's copying,When you sit down to dream up a new business, you can imagine a world without constraints
Email this ? Subscribe to this feed ? Share on Facebook,Most of the time, particulary in b2b and luxury sales, the competition is nothing Your loyalty and your market share will both grow,When the secret ballot was introduced, it just wasn't possible to count the votes in less than a few days
The worst thing that will happen is you'll sell a ton of books and raise some money for charity,Jason is running a long comment-thread at his blog about what a seamless user experience might be It makes us feel even smarter than we did yesterday,[and Dan Pink wrote about it this month in Wired
An hour a day for a month and you won't have to hide your face in shame,You can provide testimonials and real-time evidence It's difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed,It had a real name at the bottom, a phone number and a $10 gift certificate attached
His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from S.cience and Reason" , held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.
