leadership
Running away with top votes in 4 out of 5 categories, Red Canary’s 2009 Hot Starts Survey showed that Well.ca (Canada’s Online DrugStore) is one of Southwestern Ontario’s most promising young tech companies.
Primal Fusion had been percolating its Web 3.0 strategy in secret until early this year. Now, with a well-publicized demo, an alpha launch and more products on the way, the company is moving and growing fast. Kristina McDougall caught up with Founder Peter Sweeney and Director of Product Design Robert Barlow-Busch to talk about product strategy, attracting top talent, and the company's future.
Elizabeth has been making personnel decisions at RIM since the BlackBerry looked more like a pager than a smartphone. She shares over a decade of wisdom and strategies for keeping a startup attitude in a global enterprise.
US venture capital has caught on to a Canadian secret, says Suzie Dingwall. Immigrants make great entrepreneurs. She argues that as more stateside investment shifts to companies led by newly-minted Americans, Canada may lose not only it's edge, but it's entrepreneurial brainpower as well.
One of RIM's top executives talks about preserving quality in the face of explosive growth, shares the secret of great developer/tester relationships and talks about the company's unique perk.
If you look like other people, if your business looks like other businesses, then all you've done is increase your pool of competition, says Peter Bregman. Bring unique value to your job, he says, by being yourself.
70% of all corporate change efforts fail, says author and CEO Peter Bregman. Why? Because leaders too often dictate change instead of directing it.
Chris Herbert breaks down a video presentation on what constitutes a 'great' company. At its heart: collaboration, focus, vision and the ability to apply 'architectural' thinking at a market transactional level.
Don't be afraid of failure, says this post. Embrace it. It goes on to outline career best-practices for Product Managers. 1. Fail Cheap and Fail Often. 2. Practice Resilency. 3. Invest in your Career.
A study discovers that 'bad apples' ruin teams almost perfectly. In this case the apples were planted, not hired, but there's a ray of leadership hope. With links to This American Life and Coding Horror Blog, and of course, input from you.
Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek software and author of Joel on Software, writes of the hands-on leadership style that he learned in the Israeli armed forces.
When software was a young industry, inexperienced planning often drove development projects off the rails, but what's the excuse now? Asks industry veteran Chris Smith. His answer fingers three common culprits, and he suggests ways to fix an organization that 'plans to fail'.
Are there situations where a fledgling app can be developed elsewhere? At what point can an application be parceled out? Is there better ROI for certain kinds of development?
Based on her popular Webinar, Alyssa Dver breaks down what the best Product Managers have in common.
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.
"Successful leaders—and, therefore, successful founders—invest the time to clearly identify, prioritize, and communicate key goals. They then measure their success by real progress against those desired outcomes." This piece comes by way of FoundRead, a blog-style publication that runs under the umbrella of respected technology guru Om Malik.
Building a winning software company isn't that much different from building a winning hockey team, says Mario Laudi. It starts with the ability to identify talent.
On the surface, Ashok Kalle seems like the typical startup founder. But dig a little deeper, and his story is anything but ordinary. Red Canary talks to the founder of Pathway Communications. A man who took a hit from the dotcom bust, bought back his company, grew back its profits, and today has a thriving business on two continents. His secret? Investing in talented immigrants that other companies had tossed aside.
"No one (except for your mother) is going to give you money just because they want to see you succeed," says Roy Pereira, as he writes on startup funding strategies.
In a conversation I had with Jim Balsillie, Research in Motion Chairman and Co-CEO, he mentioned three ideas on how to find your very own fun factory. Here are Jim’s 3 tips on having a great career: