For Christ’s Sake, Go Read The Halo Effect — Software Defined Talk Podcast #20

In this episode we contemplate the raft of halo effectish stories about executives: Amazon’s Fire phone, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, and also in-room coffee. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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Show notes

• If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.
• In-room coffee – passenger shaming.
• Matt Ray’s predictions round-up, like Dan Lyons’s.
• Brandon reminds us to go read The Halo Effect.
• Blinkist – good for re-reading business books like the Innovator’s Dilemma
• Compuware spinning out dynatrace; some dynatrace numbers, didn’t they combine with Gomez?
• Matt Ray reads The Everything Store. “He wanted to work at Wal-mart – not as a stocker.”
• The Amazon Fire article; Lab126 reorg.
• On the tedious need to have an opinion.
• Survivor bias leadership vs. IBM.
• Going to North Idahoo.

Recommendations

• Matt: The annotated Sandman. The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition as recommended by Jason Cohen in high school.
• Brandon: get a network cable tester. Also: OpsSchool.
• Coté: Lego Detective Office and Barbershop overview video – smuggling’ cookies!