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Quote of the day - Projects

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.” – Rosabeth Moss Cantor

October 26, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Quote of the day - How to succeed

“The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.” – Charles Schwab

October 25, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Quote of the day - Thinking

“Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in, business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work… while others party.” – David Kekich

October 24, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Quote of the day - Educated mistake

"An educated mistake is better than no action at all." -Stuart G.

September 18, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Ultimate daylight awareness wallpaper

I just bought this cool gadget app for $19.95: EarthDesk. I may have bought it only because it looks cool, or only because it gives you a sense of global awareness. But the real reason is, I guess, because it's 100 times more effective than having a s…...

May 18, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford (2005)

I've been meaning to post this for quite a long time. But I guess I needed the excuse of b2evolution's new video plugin to actually do it... In case you haven't seen this yet, watch it! It is so inspiring! Steve Jobs at his best!...

April 19, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Leveraging work time

I guess many people spend about one third of their time at work. Remove sleep time and people spend half of their awake time at work! Yet they tend to focus more on the other half. The half that they feel is their "free time". The half they spend in…...

March 17, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Efficient vs. effective

Guy 1: I am so efficient I can fold 100 parachutes in a hour. Guy 2: I am so effective I can fold 100 parachutes and every single one of them will open right. Would you rather give your parachutes to the efficient or to the effective guy? Now what…...

September 22, 2005 · 3 min · François Planque

IM sucks... (and so does email)

Over the last 6 months I have refrained as much as possible from using Instant Messaging, if it was not for scheduled conversations. I mean, IM is cool in a "netmeeting" kind of way. But having an IRC/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Whatever Messenger open all day,…...

April 25, 2005 · 5 min · François Planque

Focus on the First Derivative

In his latest post about Career Calculus, Eric Sink explains how you should constantly monitor your personal learning curve by focusing on the first derivative instead of the curve itself. Very interesting post. Wise advice. I actually believe this is…

August 20, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque