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Short Presentations

My advice on expressing yourself clearly:

  • Use short sentences.
  • Always make your speech shorter than the audience is expecting.

“The more you say, the less people hear.” Harry Beckwith in Selling the Invisible.

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career other startup Uber

Uberpreneurship

Uberpreneurship, a discipline with the best of all worlds: salary of a stable job, autonomy of an entrepreneur, relationships of an executive and feedback of a focus group.

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Data Exchange: behind Bitcoin

Bitcoin is unregulated, censorship-resistant shadow currency. Blockchain, a shared ledger, ensures “cash like” coin passing: unique, immutable, final.

Bitcoin is the first Blockchain application but Blockchain is not Bitcoin. Digital currencies (digital USD, for example) are different from cyptocurrency (Bitcoin, for example).

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blockchain other patterns

Data Exchange: A shared ledger

A shared ledger technology allowing any participant in the business network to see THE system of record (ledger).

Solution – a shared, replicated, permissioned ledger. Consensus, provenance, immutability, finality.

New data exchange patter emerges: structured data (DB) -> encryption -> structured data (shared ledger DB).

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Data Exchange: Business Networks, Markets & Wealth

Business Networks benefit from connectivity: connected customers, suppliers, banks, partners / cross geography & regulatory boundary. Wealth is generated by the flow of goods & services across business network. Markets are central to this process: public (fruit market, car auction), or private (supply chain financing, bonds)

Most common organisational data exchange pattern: structured data (DB) -> unstructured (file, message) -> network -> unstructured (file, message) -> structured data (DB).

Problem - Difficult to monitor asset ownership and transfers in a trusted  business network
. Inefficient, expensive, vulnerable.

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Get and Keep Customers – J. Fox

Customers are the lifeblood of any corporation!
Customers provide jobs for new products and applications.
Customers provide early warning signals of product quality and obsolescence.
Customers provide vision to the future.
The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, Jeffrey Fox

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Don’t Expect the Personnel Department to Plan Your Career – J. Fox

Your career plan is not predetermined by the corporation.
Take responsibility in designing your own career plan.
The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, Jeffrey Fox

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Avoid Staff Jobs, Seek Line Jobs – J. Fox

Line jobs make money for your corporation.
Line jobs include: salespeople, sales and product manager, marketing directors, supervisors, and general managers.
Staff jobs are a stepping stone to other jobs.
Staff jobs include: lawyers, planners, data processing employees, R&D scientists, and all administrators.
The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, Jeffrey Fox

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Always Take the Job that Offers the Most Money – J. Fox

Advantages of higher paying jobs:
Greater benefits , perquisites, bonuses, and subsequent raises.
Higher paid persons get the higher paid jobs.
Greater visibility to top management.
Greater responsibility.
Opportunities to perform and show off talents.
Remember: Money is the score board.
The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, Jeffrey Fox

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leadership other team work

Unplanned work

If you want to work hard and not have visible results to show consider tracking unplanned work. Unplanned work is the main reason for missing deadlines. Use Kanban to lay out your planned work for a week. Keep gate shut to all unplanned work.