Apple’s Sauce: $34 Billion In Cash, Stock Peaks, And Mysterious Shipping Anomalies
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Holy smokes, that's a lot of cash. I remember when the approaching $1B mark seemed crazy high. Now that's some good management.
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Beware managers with free time - (37signals)
Beware managers with free time David Sep 17
23 comments Latest by Carl
There’s nothing more dangerous than an average manager with free time on his hands. When your work is solely coordinating and assigning other people’s tasks, topping off a slow day usually means making up more (needless) stuff for others to do.
This is in part the tyranny of the 8-hour work day paradigm. When the work is progressing as planned and the core issues have been addressed, the right move for the manager is often to step back. But if all you know how do is “manage”, there’s no fallback. Nothing else to fill your time with.
What you’re left with is net-negative management. That the presence of a manager actually detracts more value than not having one at all would do.
The alternative for many smaller teams or shops is the combined idea of managers of one and working managers. That management can be less than a full-time role, it can be a responsibility that people who also does the work can take upon them when needed.
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Carolwood Pacific Room
Taken at Disney's Wilderness Lodge Villas in the former "Golden Spike" room, renamed the Carolwood Pacifc Room after Walt Disney's scale model railroad at his home.
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Celebration FL
View from lakeside at sunset in downtown Celebration. Today is our one year anniversary of moving here.
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Rainforest Cafe
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Which do you prefer - Tumblr or Posterous?
I fell into the trap of listening to friends discuss the benefits of Tumblr over other blog/community platforms the other night. I hate getting involved in these things as it makes my mind race and ultimately the self-doubting sets in. So rather than agonize and since I have both, that contain the same stuff, I am gonna pose this question to all of you out there in Posterous and Tumblr land - which is better? Which do you like best? Should a person commit to one over the other? Or use both? Looking forward to the community thoughts on this one. -Chris
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