Let’s continue talking about some personal terms and memes. Today’s is called “The Theme Park Effect”. (I don’t really call it that but I don’t want to name-drop any specific companies.) And the concept is as follows; if you can slowly lower the OPEX, even if it impacts quality, and it doesn’t really effect your […]
Over the holidays I ended up having multiple conversations with different people on business and strategy. That either makes me incredibly boring at parties or incredibly engaging…I guess it depends on the type of parties you go to. Anyways, here’s one anecdote I found myself talking about a lot. I know a high school student […]
So I like measurements and KPIs as much as the next business manager but I am always concerned about being too overly-reliant on metrics, especially along the lines of whether the right things are being measured and optimized. It’s not even whether or not you are measuring the right things, it’s also understanding that when […]
In my last post, I talked briefly about measurement. I related a common management saying that goes something like this, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t tell if you are improving.” I don’t know who said it so I went trying to research and find out. Fascinatingly, I never did find the actual original […]
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