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!
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