Dealing With the Loss of Data

A big oopsie at Pixar almost costs $100 million. Data is easily deleted and can be hard to recover. Plan for what happens if someone makes a careless mistake.

Automating Inefficiency

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

Once More Into The Meeting

It looks like I’m not the only one who wants to ban chairs at meetings. Scott Belsky thinks it a good idea too. I think his point #1, by the way, is huge. If you’re not getting ‘action items’ from a meeting (stuff you have to actually do), you shouldn’t be there. Go do some…