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Bookmarks for February 8th through March 11th

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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The Seven Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler

October 7, 2007

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book on business that has kept me captivated through the whole thing, but Ricardo Semler’s The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works certainly did.
Semler is the CEO of SemCo SA, a company in Brazil with a pretty crazy management model by conventional standards. A [...]

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Now I’ve Heard It All: Management Lessons from RoadHouse!

February 25, 2007

One of my favorite “bad” movies that I just cannot switch past when its on is the movie “Road House“. As a matter of fact, we went out and bought the DVD so that when it is on TV, I can pop in the DVD and watch the “unedited” TV version of the [...]

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Books: The Starbucks Experience : 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary

January 6, 2007

For some reason, if there’s a business book related to Starbucks, I just have to pick it up and usually wind up going through it as quickly as one of my favorite mocha’s.
This week I ran across The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary by Joseph Michelli. This book [...]

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Dog The Bounty Hunter Arrested for Jumping Bail?

September 15, 2006

From the “what the hell was he thinking” dept: Dog the Bounty Hunter arrested in Mexico for — jumping bail. I watch the show sometimes and have heard him incessantly preach to the people he captures, even accusing them of stealing his kids college money. Way to lead by example [...]

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Flowers For The Spouse of an Over Time Worker

July 23, 2006

Jonna started a new job a few months ago as a QA Analyst. She has been working tons of overtime over the past few months due to a new site launch. When we got back from the Bristol Renaissance Fair yesterday evening, we found these on the door step. [...]

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Frank Zappa On Failure

February 17, 2006

I mentioned earlier that I was reading The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso. I have found so much value in this book that I’m not even really sure how to review it. That will come later.
I did think it would be valueable to quote [...]

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Google: Ten Golden Rules – - MSNBC.com

December 7, 2005

Google: Ten Golden Rules – MSNBC.com – An article on MSNBC on how Google manages their “knowledge workers”. Interesting read, especially given the climate of IT right now.

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If You Want To Lead, Blog

November 9, 2005

If You Want To Lead, Blog – Suns COO writes an article for the Harvard Business Review on blogging. This article sums it up.

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Numbers Not Up for the Quarter? Clamp Down on Bathroom Breaks!

October 28, 2005

Ford Motor Company reports a third quarter loss and decides that employees are spending too much time in the bathroom. If this were my company, I’d check the lunchroom.

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Three In The Morning

September 25, 2005

Between 1991 and 1993, I went through a period of time in which basically all I read were books on Chinese philosophy. From Zen, to Taoism, to books by Bruce Lee (which on first glance are about fighting, but really have a whole other level to them), I read everything I could get [...]

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The New Art of the Leader by William A. Cohen

July 24, 2005

Review of the book The New Art of the Leader

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Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup At A Time

March 15, 2005

The last post talked about my opinion of the three things I find extremely important for a company to do in order to succeed. It was initiated by the treatment that I had received the previous day at Starbucks and a posting by Jason Kottke. The timing could not [...]

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