The secret coach

Quelques conseils du guru de management (Google, Apple), ex-coach de football, Bill Campbell:

Think big with talent.
Be honest - and accountable.
Skip the chief operating officer, it's part of the CEO's job.
Invest in the future.
Empower the engineer.

Yes You Can

Les leçons à tirer de l'élection d'Obama.

Being different makes all the difference.
Just because you're different doesn't mean you can't be disciplined.

"The competitor to be feared is the one who doesn't bother about you at all, but goes about making his own business better all the time." (Henry Ford)

This, I Believe

This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. These short statements of belief, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here and featured on public radio in the United States and Canada, as well as in regular broadcasts on NPR. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
(from BizDeansTalk)

Note : Edward Murrow est celui dont George Clooney a fait le portrait dans l'excellent Good Night, And Good Luck.

Obama

Beaucoup de choses à dire sur l'élection de Barack Obama. Trop peut-être. Pas trop d'enthousiasme, mais trop de promesses qui reposent sur une seule personne. Alors qu'il est le premier à parler au 'nous'. Un bon petit texte ici qui résume très bien ma pensée.

Ingénieur de son

Je pense que j'aurais bien aimé être ingénieur du son. Mais à voir ce qui s'est passé avec le dernier de Metallica (lien 1, lien 2), on voit bien qu'il n'y en a pas de job idéale.

Actifs intangibles

Les employés sont le plus grand actif d'une entreprise. Un classique.
Mais qu'en est-il des systèmes informatiques ?

Il semble que les ordinateurs / serveurs soient les seuls actifs importants des banques en faillite. Mais pourtant, ces mêmes banques devaient avoir d'importants partenariats avec les SAP et Siebel de ce monde.

Des couches et de la bière

En ces heures de paternité, j'aurais donc besoin de couches et de bière ! Ou peut-être pas...

Back in 2002, Professor Daniel Power of the University of Northern Iowa traced the correlation to a 1992 data analysis by Teradata Corp. for Osco Drug -- an analysis that observed the purchase affinity, between 5 and 7 p.m., of the two apparently unrelated inventory items. Though Osco did not act on the observation in its store layout or promotional efforts, the striking simplicity of the example just begged for embellishment. "Beer and diapers" has since not only become the gerbil rumor of marketing, it has been enshrined as data mining's Isaac Newton and the falling apple or Archimedes in the bath. It simply shouts "Eureka."

Ouch!

Ok, je suis un fan fini du magazine Fortune, pas vraiment pour les hints financiers, mais plutôt pour les talents de story-tellers des journalistes.

En fait, une chance que je ne lis pas vraiment le tout pour faire de l'argent !

(via nicolaslangelier)

Infrastructures ferroviaires en Amérique du Nord

Le projet d'acquisition du EJ&E par le CN vu dans une plus large perspective de développement des infrastructures ferroviaires en Amérique du Nord.

By all accounts, America will need more rail tracks in the coming years to handle freight for a growing population's needs, but laying down any new rails is a sure way for companies to stir up fierce local opposition. [...]

The growing furor over CN's plans to use this sleepy 198-mile loop around Chicago to circumvent its chronically clogged rail network is being watched carefully by other railroads to see how regulators handle the issue.

"The rail industry is keeping a pretty close eye on CN's bid for the EJ&E and the opposition to it," said Tom Mentzer, a logistics expert at the University of Tennessee. "This is one of a few test cases out there at the moment."

Analysts say the core issue for the rails is whether to pursue infrastructure projects without government support.

"The EJ&E case is symptomatic of the two faces that government shows on railroad issues," said Anthony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst. "On the one hand, politicians support trains as safer, more environmentally friendly and a good way to get freight off congested highways."

"But at the same time they pander to local political interests and campaign to have vital rail projects anywhere else but here," he added.

Superbe

Superbe site.
Superbe photos.
Touchant.