Business & Leadership

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What are you thinking today?

What we ponder and what we think about sets the course of our life. Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish, we can start a new activity. Any day […]

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Getting Things Done – An Introduction

The monthly theme for us at Magnet is Getting Things Done. Applying David Allen’s methodology of stress free productivity. I tried a lot to find a simple presentation on the subject online. I wanted something I could use in a session I take. Something that will organize the key ideas, will not have the typical […]

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The Attitude of Wisdom, from Management Advice: Which 90% is crap?

It turns out that facing the hard facts is something that human beings are remarkably bad at doing. We “shoot the messengers” who bring us bad news; we seek, remember, and act on bad evidence that supports our dearly held beliefs; we avoid, forget, and fail to act on evidence that clashes with our ingrained […]

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Startup School 2008: Key Takeaways, from OnStartups

Paul Graham’s Y! Combinator organized “Startup School 2008” a while ago. Dharmesh Shah’s onStartups blog summarizes key take aways from the event. I am taking up even refined points, and recommend you to read the full post on Dharmesh’s blog. David Lawee, VP Corporate Development, Google; founder, XFire.Hurry Up. Sam Altman, Founder, Loopt.If you can […]

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How they built Google Docs?

We are working on some rich web applications and Ashok sent a link on How they built Google Docs. That was actually Suw Charman-Anderson’s notes from the FOWA 07 (Future of Web Apps 2007) conference, where Jonathan Rochelle gave a talk on how they developed Google Docs over the years. What decisions they made, what […]

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