Tag Archives: business

It’s Called a Niche, and It’s Not a Bad Thing

Saturday, 7 June, 2008 – 17:11

From David of 37signals:
Popular perception holds that companies must always be growing or they’re dying. There’s either up or down, win or lose, success or failure. I think that’s a harmful dichotomy that leads to the death of perfectly viable companies in their quest for constant growth.
Not all companies are meant to have thousands of [...]

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He’s Looking to Steal My “Captain Obvious” Title

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008 – 22:56

Normally, I would just have included a link in my daily del.icio.us posting to this article at GigaOm that somehow references part of a review that’s behind a pay wall at another site (I’m not sure I understand it myself), but I wanted to take the time to comment on some of the quotes pulled [...]

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Tuesday, 29 April, 2008 – 12:09

“A managed environment requires behavior from us that we accept as inevitable although, of course, it is really mandatory only because it is mandated. We call it ‘professionalism.’ . . .
“Managed businesses have taken our voices. We want to struggle against this. We wear a snarky expression behind our boss’s back, place ironic distance between [...]

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