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Mine ideer fra Steve Jobs biografi.

Den integererede løsningen vil være lagt bedre, da man herved har mudlighed for at kontrolere end 2 end. Det var stor fokus på hvilke approach der var bedst.

Man skal fokusere på nogle enkle løsninger, og ikke forsøge at komme rundt om alle de mulige ting som man kan lave. selv en stor virksomhed som apple har kun mulighed for at fokusere på et begrænset antal områder. Det skal man hjælpe med at håndtere og vælge de områder der giver mest emnign.

Man skal have en ærlig virksomhedskultur, hvor folk er istand til at arbejde sammen om at komme frem til nogle løsninger. Det gjorde Steve ved at fortælle sig mening. Det kan lyde meget hårdt at komme med de udtagelser, og folk er ikke glade for dem når det sker. Men efterfølgende skulle de virke meget godt.

Han virkede heller ikke så sympatisk den måde han reagerede på over for folk. MEn det er nok hans måde at sige at det skal være bedre den måde tingene køre på.

Han har forstået at få det rigtige team omkring sig, og det er en del af successen at kunne få de folk til at hjælpe med at drive virksomheden.

Han havde et fokus på at han skulle være en kunstser, og ikke ingenør. Der er en forskel i hvad det er for product det giver. Kunsteren vil have det skal være pænt og estitikken skal være god. Engineøren vil have noget der er nemt og billigt at producere. Det giver forskellige produkter.

Man skal nok også huske at vi alle skal dø og derfor bliver vi nødt til at fokusre på at lave noget der giver en legacy. Hvordan kan jeg sørge for at få lavet noget.

Vi står alle på skulderne af giganter. Vi bruger noget som andre har valgt at lave til os,som vi bliver nød til at bruge, hvis vi vil frem i verden. Giv dem kredit.

MAn skal måske ikke være så generet og ikke ville spørge folk som er på andre niveauer end en selv. Jobs ringede til HP direktør da han var lille. Det samme er muligt i andre sammenhæng.

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I have just been reading Patrick Lencioni’s “The five Dysfunctions of a Team, a leadership fable.”

A really interesting book about how to improve teams performance.

See my video of the book.

What do you think of the book ideas, do they apply to your context .

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This week I was reading Cradle to Cradle from Michael Braungart and William McDonugh. The book gave room for thought. Both on how we create more enviormental friendly products. But was triggered me most was how it also applys to the usage in SAP.

Vishal Sikka mention the timeless software. Where software can continue to run for ever, but just get a new front.

As a developer you can also apply some of this. How do you make software that is easy to get started with.

See the video hire.

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Yesterday I was reading Nancy Duates Resonate. About how to create extraordinary presentations that changed the way people felt. It is a really nice graphical book. Something that other also could inspire to do.

Nancy is using a model to describe the way presentations should go. There should be something about the present and what why that is not enough and a frustration. Then there should be alternations to what is supposed to/or could be. If you change between these to stages in the presentation people will feel like there is a reason to change. Nancy applies the model to both Steve Jobs Iphone launch and Martin Luther Kings I have a dream. They can bot be described using this way.

One part that I particularly enjoyed was a case story from Cisco, where they had a slide describing a technical solution. Instead of starting with why the technical solution they change to start with a story about a beer producer and a problem that he was facing. Then they had a cliffhanger to make sure people were listening to the technical solution. After the technical details were described they could come back and tell the story with beer producer. It seems to give a much better flow in the presentation.

One thing that I found interesting was only to have one idea per slide. And it should be as brief described as possible. People should not have to spend a lot of time reading the presentation, because then they are losing focus on you. The slide should more serve as an anchor for the message. The long slides are more of a report, but that is a different ball game.

Also only spend max 2 minutes pr slide. This is a loft different from what others are getting. I have heard that you should spend up till 5 minutes a slide. So it is a large difference. But if you are only allowed to have one idea on a slide it is easier to describe the change.

One final thing that struck me was the practices it requires to make a presentation. If it has to be good you should have focus groups. Most people do not give time for creating more than one draft or practice. We have become a culture of first drafters with blogs, a emails, and presentation.

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This week I have read Brendon Burchard’s The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice.

I opted for creating a video book review of it.

You can find the book on Amazon.

. Disclosure it is an affiliate link.

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I have just read the book Not dead enough by Peter James. I read the Danish translation Langtfra Død. It was a pretty easy read and quite thrilling.

It is a detective story with the hero Ray Grace in as criminal inspector. The story is told with the view from the different persons involved with the book.

A woman is found murdered and the story is about how to find the killer. The idea is that the housebound is the leader of a software company dealing with creating scheduling software is interesting. He is a workaholic that never spends time with his wife. Also a woman he knows is found dead, which is a bit strange. She is killed much the same way as the wife.

The murder has planted a lot of false leads towards convicting the housebound that he believes has stolen his business idea. Therefore the housebound have to pay. All these evidence points to the housebound, it is first when a new lead is followed that the police get the idea to find the new murder.

I find the idea with also seeing the killer’s perspective to be a bit distracting. It makes it too easy to learn what the plot is about. If it was not used this way you would have to read to the last 15% of the book before you will learn that it is not the housebound who is the killer.

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This week I was reading the danish version of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s Gælden ved at være til The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness .

It was a quite different book than I normally read. I have not read that may spiritual books. But it was quite interesting to get a perspective to how meditation works. So now I got a little heads up on what the meditation we are doing in is about.

There are a lot of great stories in the book, which gives a lot of perspective on what the good life is about.

There is also a large part of the book devoted to feeling better because of changing perspective on life.

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This week I was read Excuses Begone! By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer with the subtitle: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits.

I’m going to see Dr Wane Dyer at Experts academy in March so I thought I would be a great book to read. And it was.

The book covers a lot of the normal excuse that we use in our daily life like

• I’m too old
• I’m too tired

One crucial question to ask is “Can I 100% know this is real” and for most you cannot be sure. So there is a way to change it.

A topic also covered is the Mind virus(mime), something that we have learned was a good thing because it help us at some point in our life or we learned it from our parents. It is a mix between genetic and what we have learned. They make it deficit of changing our habits.

One of the key issues is to stay in the now. It is often quite difficult but it will give much greater life if we can stay there.

It was a good book and it gave a lot of ideas to how to change our life. Just by changing the way we talk to our self.

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I got a great offer to buy some Kaplan books on the Kindle so I got to read Kaplan Technical Writing by Carrie Hannigan et. al.

I have been focusing on creating some documentation for the PI system so I thought that this book could help with some ideas.

The book was quite basic around something as creating a document or a mail. I think that most of the content is what you would gain from experiences.

It did provide some good comments. In each document use a statement of purpose. It will make it much easier for other users to know what they can gain from reading the document.

There is also a recommendation to use different fronts based on you expect people to read on the screen (Arial, Century Gothic, Comic Sans MS, Tahoma, or Verdana) and for print use (Times New Roman, Book Antigua, Century, and Georgia).

One thing that I have lacked is the use of active vs passive tone in the writing.

• Active: Theresa Lane prepared the document.
• Passive: The document was prepared by Theresa Lane

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This week it has been going on with learning to do public presentations. The art of public speaking by Dale Carnegie. The book is about how to present in front of people.

The book is designed as a course book. The chapters’ covers are fairly short and all cover a principle that you have to master as a speaker. After each chapter there are some exercises that you must do to practice. It takes a lot of time to make all the different assignments at the end of the captors. The book is therefore suited to cover a course held over a period of lessons with homework. Or by a dedicated student.

The book covers topics like gestures, words, movement, research and speech creation. It is quite informative all the different lessons that are worth looking into when creating addresses.

There is cover of different ways to influence others and how it can be used to create a good presentation.

All the ideas is quite common knowledge but it is not anything that you would see normally and remember.

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