... THEOTHERSIDEOF WALL STREETSummer Loving The loss of my grandfather notwithstanding, life had never beenbetter, at least as measured through a monetary lens. While othersstruggled with the ... in life and the ramifications thereof, it was difficult to appreciate how they affectedothers. I was reminded of that in the summer of 2010 while spendinga few days with my brother Adam during ... account of someone who figured out whohe wanted to be in the world.” —David Gaffen, author of Never Buy Another Stock Again TheOtherSideof Wall Street provides an immensely personal, insider’s...
... However, they can be beat at their own game. And in the face ofthe Internet, their informa-tional advantage is shrinking every day—as evidenced by, among other things, the falling price of coffins ... forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation. ... about the won-derful opportunities ofthe global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals....
... goals:17Chapter 1: Meeting the Business Sideof Google05_571435 ch01.qxd 5/21/04 11:27 PM Page 17 Chapter 1Meeting the Business Side of GoogleIn This ChapterᮣAssessing the future of Google business ... method — and fortunate timing. The typical rev-enue path of online media companies is lined on one side with advertisingand on theotherside with special services. Consider Yahoo!. While gaining ... long-term strategy?14Part I: Meeting theOtherSideof Google Google’s business isn’t just advertisingIn the beginning of this chapter, I emphasizeadvertising as the revenue model that drivesGoogle’s...
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... view theirrole as a kind of senior prof essor to the less experienced engineers,providing technical input and guidance ev en as they themselves getfurther and further away from the detail. These ... eoccurred—perceived loss of face not the least among them. On the other hand, people from those cultures often view NorthAmericans as pushy, while Israeli employees may view them as softand indecisive.Poor ... A.M., a Tuesday night like any other. A lone light burns insidea beautiful Tudor-style custom home on the edge ofthe NorthwestHills in Austin, Texas. Inside, yet another busy project managerstruggles...
... opposing group of professors never lost the desire to stop the project.) The Achilles ’ heel ofthe project was the conceptual confl ict between the anonymity ofthe feedback and the security ... What’s the Dark Side? 1I.1.1 Why the Dark Side? 2I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? 3I.1.3 How Dark is the Dark Side? 5I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? 7I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark Side ... into account the promising economic prospects ofthe offshore cooperation, the German company decided to initiate the project, regardless ofthe lack of support on the part of the middle manager....
... but, whenthey come to the bumps in the road, the y hav e in place the teamand the skills to maneuver around the danger zone.First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of lif e in the mod-ern ... A.M., a Tuesday night like any other. A lone light burns insidea beautiful Tudor-style custom home on the edge ofthe NorthwestHills in Austin, Texas. Inside, yet another busy project managerstruggles ... through the use of squishy-sounding words like these is often derided as the use of soft skills. But the ability to get work done by understanding peo-ple is v astly undervalued in the project...
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... manyorganizations keep two sets of cost estimates for a project, muchas they do with schedules. One set is shown to the outside world; the other is what the team is driven to meet. Of course, the inter-nal ... way.Quite often, this hinders the dissemination ofthe technology theycreate, exactly the opposite of what they would like to see. The next three stories are really just facets of one larger ... panel for the wood-sorting yard. The wood-sorting yard is the front end of a paper mill, the areawhere the logs are sorted by size, quality, and whatever other cri-teria are used. The logs are...
... dis-cussed only twelve ofthe open items and closed only five of them.Ravi has scheduled another two-hour meeting f or the next day.Another day shot, they drift back to their cubicles. Jiao calls ... through each ofthe five phases of a project calledAlpha Omega, inside the communications division of a hypotheti-cal tech company called Best Technology Company (BTC).PM Assignment The communications ... quiet!” Finally, they calmdown. They’re good people; they know the score.Ravi continues. “On the open items in the scope document—here is a list. I ha ve assigned each of you the appropriate...
... lacks the tools and the emotional intelligence to get the most out of them, which leavesthem feeling frustrated and rudderless. On theother hand, Sheila’steam has a strong sense that they are ... from theother fourknowledge areas of HR, communication, procurement, and quali-ty. Of course, planning is the process where you “pierce the fog of 160AVOIDING PITFALLS INTHE FIVE KEY PHASES OF ... areotherwise fine in practice may e xhibit some strange behaviors. Forexample, they may throw the ball without ensuring that there is ateammate in the vicinity ofthe pass. Also, some of them...