One Red Question
Big news sites or blogs? Slashdot or Engadget? What's your gold standard for tech news, product reviews and business perspectives?
Do you feel that you're lucky to have your job...and the company that subsidizes it? Or are they lucky to have your talent or experience? Or is it somewhere in between?
We've all worked with someone who just blew us away at every level: driven but not manic, more charismatic than autocratic, talented to the nth degree but humble, and possessed of that subtle wash of vision, focus, organizational sense and level-headedness that inspires people to want to go to war with them.
PODCAST. Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule talks about a well-known company that offers a monthly award to employees who 'politely ignore' their boss in order to get something done. Is this a good idea?
The smiling faces of CEOs, thought gurus du jour and accidental millionaires gorge the business section of every bookstore. Most of the volumes are self-aggrandizing tripe or neu-think, but some emerge as essential, influential reading. What business book do you most often thumb through? Which magnum opus changed your approach to career or professional conduct?
How many 'average' developers is one 'great' developer worth? Steve Jobs says 50-to-1, others say 1000-to-1, some say none-to-1. Just how valuable are the best devs and engineers when it comes to building a product?
This question was sparked by a conversation with an HR professional at a medium-sized software company in Toronto. Her complaint was that she couldn’t get Waterloo (or Tech Triangle) professionals to come and work for her in The Big Smoke.
The idea behind One Red Question is simple. We ask a question and you tell everyone the answer. Good answers and good rebuttal get scored – not by us, but by you. Our job is to reward the highest vote-getters. This week’s question: What is the greatest challenge facing new Canadian technology companies?