Archive for the tag 'management'

May 23 2008

Legacy is good, but change can be hard

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

The new Funambol Forge opened registration to new members. It’s based on Collabnet, as other big free software projects like OpenOffice.org, NetBeans.org, java.net and eBay Dev. I feel comfortable and in good company
Funambol has a very big community with lots of people that contributed to the project over its many years of [...]

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May 07 2008

My income online: it’s bad management

Published by Stef under business, politica

I’ve read many comments about the publication of income tax reports by Italian government, the last act of past government. I don’t know if giving my income statement to my neighbors (and to the rest of the world) is good or bad. What really made me angry was the justification by former minister, Visco. He [...]

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Mar 19 2008

Business schools should teach micro-management

Published by Stef under business, eng

I had a laugh today reading an article about Steve Jobs management style from Leander Kahney.
As a business school student the article made me think of all the different management styles existing. Jobs is a control freak, a micro-manager, almost a maniac. Will Eisner praised micro-management too at last World [...]

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Dec 06 2007

News flash: Managing a non-profit organization is real business

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

After many years of working in a non-profit organization I became convinced that the main difference between for-profit business and non-profit business is in the availability (or lack thereof) of dividends. Plus for-profit companies prefer not to pay dividends and markets pressure corporations to act in stakeholder’s interests (not just shareholder’s) … I leave the [...]

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