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Steve Jobs biografi af Walter Issacsons

January 9th, 2012

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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Book of the Week: The five Dysfunctions of a Team

May 24th, 2011

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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Book of the week: SAP Netweaver PI – Development 2nd

April 29th, 2011

This week’s book a rather technical book about how to develop in SAP PI.

The book is SAP NetWeaver PI Development: Practical Guide by Valentin Nicolescu et al

 

I wanted to talk some more about the book, so I have created a video that you can see here.

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Book of the week: The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice

April 3rd, 2011

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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Book review Millionaire Upgrade

November 30th, 2010

I was listing to Richard Parkes Cordocks book Millionare Upgrade. It is a quite interesting book.

It is a story about a man sitting beside a successful entrepreneur in a plane ride. During the course of the flight the successful entrepreneur tell his story on how to become successful. It is some quite valuable lessons. I guess I have heard most of them before, but the idea of placing them so close together is quite interesting. It is a god way to put them all together.

One framework used in the book is to tie everything together is the phrase:

I BELIEVE

This is composed of

  • I Believe in my self
  • Be passionate and wanted, so you are totally motivated to get your goals
  • Lies and luck don’t work. Luck is the cross road of opportunities
  • Installing goals. They should be written down
  • Enjoy hard work; you have to want to work because you just love it.
  • Very Very Persistent, just have to keep the nose in the rill.
  • Expect failure. There will be mistakes and you have to be able to stop projects

Then there is team work to get everything to work. You need to be able to get people to work together.

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Free From Corporate America

November 17th, 2010

I just finished reading Free from Corporate America by Jon Reed (@jonerp). Subtitle: “A tactical guide to success on your own terms”. I purchased it a while ago, but it was first now I got time to read it. It is defiantly worth a read.

The book emphasize that we all must have a way to make us less venerable to be fired from our jobs. The process is a bit more long term and helps identify that you need to create some way to brand yourself in a way that will allow you to create extra income.

The book is something in the lines of Timothy Ferris 4 Hour Work Week. It is the same base assumption on creating a secondary goal. 4 hour work week is a bit more focus on creating products and a vision to get a way. Free from corporate America is more focus on creating products and finances them.

Jon is telling his story on how he is building is brand and creating assets. It contains some detailed instructions on how and when to create your new assets.

One thing I would have loved to see more of in the book was Jon’s ideas on how SAP consultants, a way that freelancers could leverage their knowledge better.

It is inspiring to hear that other people have success in the cooperate work with creating their own brands and assets. The persistence is the key; you can create a book with just 3 hours a week for 3 years. It means that everybody can become an expert in something.

One cool word I learned is Aficionado. An aficionado is an expert in something that other people really don’t care about and is not something that can bring in money.

If you buy from the links on Amazon, I’ll make a few cents on the books.

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