It’s generally considered as tough to recruit the best, most committed and most passionate people. One approach is to offer good pay in an attempt to tempt potential new hires. Another, radical, approach is instead to offer to pay people to quit. If this sounds unlikely, you need to read this article:
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too – Harvard Business Online’s Bill Taylor
We have been running daily stand-up meetings for well over a year now, with generally good results. Occasionally we hit some speed-bumps (at the moment, one problem seems to be that the group of participants is a bit too large, but splitting the group does not seem useful either). Such meetings are obviously personal and vary between teams and situations, but it was good to read an article (and comments) about effective stand-up meetings.
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
