Leadership today

Peggy Noonan's Article commenting on Steve Job's thoughts on innovation in companies.  Steve believed that company's stop focusing on creating value and focus on salesman and accounting.  These are ideas in Steven Denning's Radical Management.

500 algorithm change per year

According to the Google post, there are approximately 500 changes to their search algorithm a year.  Tough work for an SEO...

Usability

Recent post on various usability studies: http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/10-usability-tips-based-on-research-studies/

Reboot management

David Carr had an interesting article on management philosophy's.  Showcasing the winner of a contest for an organization built around personal comments to each other with no formal titles. Interesting and not that different than PDP process.

Multitasking

Fun and entertaining post to read on multitasking and work:
http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/11/four-destructive-myths-most-co.html

While I've never been a fan of 'multitasking' for the reasons Tony points out, there are many examples of where 'multitasking' works (just take a look at the comments).  In the end, I believe how you define 'multitasking' determines if people can effectively utilize 'multitasking'.

I would have liked some links to the research Tony used to determine they are myths.

Forrester Evaluates Enterprise Search Landscape

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/forrester-evaluates-enterprise-search-landscape-none-open-source-012749.php

Vivisimo is leader, IBM is bottom, and Open Source Search (OSS) not evaluated.  Ratings have qualitative elements.

Killer Insights

Chris Murphy of InformationWeek posted some very good points from CIOs at the IW 500 conference.


So as a CIO, are you immersed in a six-month bakeoff to decide on the right content management or email system? Lane's implication: You're doing the wrong job -- Ray Lane, Hewlett-Packard chairman


Great IT teams today are asking the question: What does the end customer need from us? -- Chris Murphy

"Many of us have been educated out of our creative confidence." -- Sir Ken Robinson

Creativity is: "unique ideas that have value."

-- Sir Ken Robinson

"Your best friend is the CMO. That's where the action is really happening." -- Robert Urwiler, Vail Resorts CIO

“The only thing we were going to be wed to is being open minded” -- Paul DePodesta, New York Mets VP of player development and scouting

"Social media points us in the direction of where we need to do more research." -- Jared Anderson, Best Buy senior manager of customer experience research

"...hackers searched for and exploited one of just two ColdFusion-based websites the lab still had. Companies often don't keep up the attention and technical skills needed to keep those small systems secure" -- Jerry Johnson, CIO, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory