How companies like Uber and Airbnb are gamifying work
BusinessFirst published on Medium. Companies with the newer “sharing economy†business models are gamifying work. They are making people work hard in ways that …
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When you are afraid of risk, you create weak teams
BusinessFirst published on Medium. When role models are risk adverse, they change the game for everyone. Last night at kickball, a young woman on the other team decided …
Read more →Your competition helps explain who you are
Business mozilla PlanetGNOME“Where there is no competition, there is no market. This is why start-ups who “have no competition” have trouble engaging partners and making …
Read more →How to have hallway conversations when you can't see the hallway
Business Career gnome mozilla PlanetGNOMEI recently listened to a talk by Michael Lopp about how to be a great manager. During his talk, he stressed the importance of hallway conversations. Hallway …
Read more →The secret to my success in a field of men? All my friends. My guy friends.
Business Career mozilla PlanetGNOME womenI’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about why we have so few women in open source and web development and how to encourage more women …
Read more →Forking an open source project: regaining internal motivation
Business open source PlanetGNOME Would you do it again for free?Can forking a free software project enable you to regain your internal motivation to work on a project? My current theory is that if you work on free software, …
Read more →How do I raise enough money to work on my project full time?
Business Career gnome open source PlanetGNOME“How do I raise enough money to be able to spend all my time working on my favorite free software project?” is a question I hear often. I have a few …
Read more →Book Review: Managing the Nonprofit Organization
Books Business gnomeIf you follow any of the links to Amazon in this post, any purchases you make will send a referral fee to the GNOME Foundation. Peter Drucker’s Managing …
Read more →501(c): (3) versus (6)
Business501(c) organizations are US non profit organizations. 501(c) is actually the name of the IRS tax code that defines non profits. There are actually 28 kinds of …
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