
For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong
I read with interest Joel Spolsky’s guest post over on A VC. It’s all about how he sees the hardcore command and control model as the wrong model for startups and that it has been wrongly emphasized by highly autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs. As an alternative, he advocates inverting the hierarchical pyramid so that […]

Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?
Corporate IT is about standardization, control, governance, compliance, IP protection and enterprise security not about personal choice and empowerment, or at least it was. There’s a growing movement though towards employee empowerment and personal. Now admittedly some of the movement…