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March 5, 2005 Business & Strategy

The Lights Are On, But No One's Home

Wifey pointed out a major problem with sites recently. “I sent e-mail to these idiots a week ago, and no one responded. Now I gotta go call them.” Who’s checking your e-mail? Do they respond within 24 hours? If they won’t be able to respond for a longer time, do they set autoreplies or...

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October 13, 2004 Business & Strategy, Rants

Building Without a Plan

I’m just finishing up Web work on a symposium that illustrates all that’s wrong with unplanned development: the people in charge kept coming up with new ideas after we’d started, and they kinda liked waiting until work was done on something before starting to think about it. So I (and others) would work to...

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June 1, 2004 Business & Strategy, Web Philosophy

Bigger Soapboxes Than This

I’ve given several presentations and had a pre-blog list of Web myths going in the past, and I thought some might be interested in them: Website Redesign and the Devil’s Work. How to make your Webs user-focused. Iceberg, Right Ahead: Managing Website Growth — Little gorillas are so cute. Then they grow. Web Site...

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Remote/distributed teams?

No problem. I've been managing and organizing remote teams for over a decade. It's not the same thing as in-office management, and if you try to apply the same techniques, it just won't work. I've spent a lot of time and careful thought honing a management style that works.

People first.

My work is user-focused, and it always has been. We start by understanding our audience -- the people who will use the product -- then we get busy crafting experiences that are intuitive, elegant, and effective. Business goals are critical to success, but if they do not intersect with customers on a level that just seems right... the business will not succeed.

Inspiring and effective.

It's one thing to be really good at what you do. It's another to make everyone around you really good at what they do. I've been a leader at a variety of levels, and I'm proud to say that my greatest successes have been facilitating other people's greatest successes.

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