Strategy + Ventures: November 2005 Archives

There have been a spate of articles online with people telling other people how Drucker influenced their lives. I must confess - I've never read any Drucker. Of all the articles I read of people writing about Drucker, I liked the Businessweek one the best. So here it is: The Man Who Invented Management

Christian Mayaud pointed this out in his blog. He's got a very good commentary here. If you haven't added his blog to your blogroll, do so now! On my side, I must confess, I've never seen a pitch book before.. so this is what Investment bankers get paid for?? :-)) N.B. this is a "public" version. I'm sure there was some sensitive information withheld in this version of the presentation. But still, it's a pretty good read! Here it is:Ebay Skype pitchbook

Seth Godin pointed a manifesto written by a friend of his called Ira Williams on bringing back humility to our lives. It's quite thought provoking - even for the secular among us!! :-) What's even more intriguing is this website ChangeThis :: View manifestos which has a lot of high-value ideas for free download. Hope something out there changes your life!

We did a huge amount of work on process redesign/re-engineering/engineering.. Choose whatever you'd like to call it. Along the way, we learnt a few things, that we used to prevent ineffective design. We'd like to share those thoughts with you in this document The overall theme is this

Keep things simple & reduce distractions

Reduce rework

Help employees get work done faster

Hope you like it...