Team Intelligence

From TechRepublic:

Know why the organizer called the meeting
Know what you want from the meeting
List what you need to say
Take the meeting minutes
Keep to the rules of order
Reflectively listen in information meetings
Set things that derail aside
Ask for action items
End the meeting when it is done
Ask questions afterwards

Agendas are the most effective way to run a […]

Research available from here indicates that although teamwork does have a positive correlation with your financial performance, it does not seem to make a difference whether the team is autonomous or not:
The results of this study confirm the popular belief in management circles that team production is a good bet for enhancing organizational performance. […]

It seems like the things you assume about how a great startup is born might be misleading you.   I  am starting to suspect that the most valuable things I’ve learned at the previous companies I worked at was what not to do.

Wikipedia has the following to say about persuasion:
Persuasion is a form of influence. It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not only logical) means. It is a problem-solving strategy and relies on “appeals” rather than force.
The most effective way to persuade […]

We’ve been asked many times where the name Kalexo comes from.  Since every word in practically every language is already registered as a domain name, it is really hard to come up with a name.  When the company was founded, we did not know what we were going to build, so we were happy with […]

Kalexo is  the name of the software startup that I am involved with.  Our interest is how to better handle the mess of work that happens when a team grows large.  Getting on the same page and staying there is pretty hard when you have a large team and a few thousand things to do.  […]

Don Dodge is a clever guy - I used to run into him at AltaVista now and then. He has a interesting posting on his blog about how you should focus on your customers and not your competitors. Sort of in the same veign is the notion of stealth mode startups. Lets face it, having […]

Lately there seems to be a lot of interest in offline use of applications. A few years ago we just called them desktop applications and it was not remarkable that they could work without a a network connection. Of course I use several online applications myself. Yahoo has kept my email […]

If you hang out at the defacto news source of the Web 2.0 movement, TechCrunch, you might notice a lot of interest about Web 2.0 and how it will jump from social media to the enterprise. The idea is a that the enterprise will be signing up in droves for software as a service […]

Getting all things done in a startup is often impossible. You tend to focus on the important stuff and the remainder gets done sometime later. Since a lot of the “later” tasks are not on the critical path, you might consider having it done on a contracting basis. Paying $10-12 an […]