For those of you already familiar with “Good to Great”, certainly the Hedgehog Concept is perhaps the easiest to remember. In relation to all the other areas (Level 5 Leadership, First Who Then What, Confront the Brutal Facts) we have talked about so far, this idea is the most pivotal to becoming great.
Before diving in [...]
Continuing on to Chapter 4 of “Good to Great”, we have “Confront the Brutal Facts“. Each of these chapters reveal something crucial to becoming a great company. In this case, it is the ability to face reality but at the same time not lose faith.
Most employees face the brutal facts everyday. They deal with the [...]
1. WHO 2. WHAT
Continuing on the path of understanding what makes good into great, the next step is understanding the value of the idea “First who, then what“. This is the third chapter of “Good to Great”.
For most companies, “what to do” is often considered more important than “who to do it”. [...]
Brian Madden takes a peek at Project Alice based out of AdProd Sydney. Alice promises to integrate remote desktops with local applications in a similar way that remote applications currently integrate with local desktops. It is also known as reverse seamless.
Brian had a look when visiting Sydney a few weeks ago. It was unclear at [...]
Yesterday I wrote about “Good to Great” in general. Today I am going to focus on an idea called level 5 leadership. It is chapter 2 of the book and I remember being surprised by its revelations. At first it didn’t make sense that it would be true but by the end [...]
“Good to Great” is a book written by Jim Collins about the successful transition from being a good company to a great company. What makes this book unique is the extent of research done to find what made companies great. Built from a team effort over five years of work, “Good to Great” [...]
Citrix has officially announced that XenDesktop will be made available during Citrix Synergy on May 20, 2008. This project has been in the works for more than two years now. It saw a major shift when Citrix acquired Xen Source. Before that the project was more diversified in regards to virtualization. The focus on Xen [...]
There has been a certain curiosity about where flash memory is going. It is typically hard to locate good material on subjects like this. There was luck on this tonight. Jim Cooke from Micron gave a presentation at WinHEC in 2007 about “Flash Memory Technology Direction“. For those of you that love technical detail, you’ll [...]
Brian Madden sure makes it easy to attend BriForum 2008 in Chicago. Not only does he build a great conference but he also gives you the template letter to use for your boss.
Dear [Insert Your Boss' Name Here]:
I would like to attend BriForum 2008 in Chicago, June 16-18, 2008. I’m certain that attending this independent, [...]
I have debated about including this post in the main Citrix blog for a few months now. Finally I have concluded that it is worth mentioning. Back in January, I wrote about my first computer. I bought a Commodore 64 in 1983 and it was part of the process that led me to becoming a [...]
