Geoff Mazeroff

Dates covered: July 22-28, 2019 (week 30 of 52) Business Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t (via Harvard Business Review) Lack of alignment with the business — you need some separation, but also direction for vision,…

Dates covered: July 15-21, 2019 (week 29 of 52) Business The Case for Hiring More Full-Time Workers (via Harvard Business Review) Many people are taking part in the gig economy; however, this work typically lacks health insurance, unemployment protections, and…

Dates covered: July 8-14, 2019 (week 28 of 52) Business Building a Startup That Will Last (via Harvard Business Review) Articulate a value framework oriented toward societal impact, not just financial achievement Demonstrate the ability to execute second and third…

Dates covered: July 1-7, 2019 (week 27 of 52) Business The Upside of Losing Innovative Employees to Competitors (via Harvard Business Review) The article focuses on R&D employees, so your mileage may vary. The relationship between companies isn’t binary, and…

Dates covered: June 24-30, 2019 (week 26 of 52) Business What Startup Employees Can Teach the Rest of Us About Work (via Harvard Business Review) “Where stability and long-term planning were once the mark of a sound strategy, adaptability is…

Dates covered: June 17-23, 2019 (week 25 of 52) Business Software Below the Poverty Line (via The Software Mentor) (This post spans categories — business, software development, culture.) Open source software is an interesting area, as it seems to straddle…

Dates covered: June 10-16, 2019 (week 24 of 52) Business When Employees Are Using Software That IT Hasn’t Approved (via Harvard Business Review) Although I haven’t experienced it to the scale of the examples mentioned in the article, there are…

Dates covered: June 3-9, 2019 (week 23 of 52) Business How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward (via Harvard Business Review) Deleverage as much debt as you can; when revenue is tight, it’s difficult to make principal and interest…

Dates covered: May 27-June 2, 2019 (week 22 of 52) NOTE: A bit lighter this week, as I’m on vacation. Business Don’t Break Up Facebook — Treat It Like a Utility (via Harvard Business Review) The big tech companies like…

Dates covered: May 20-26, 2019 (week 21 of 52) Business How Executive Recruiters Maintain Secrecy (via Harvard Business Review) I’ll skip the numbered list, as I doubt any of my readers are being recruited as executives. The amount of covert…