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Android, the operating system used by Google in its mobile devices, is distributed under several open source licenses. This essentially means that anyone, be an individual or company, can download the source and build their own version of Android if the have the technical skills to do so. From a business strategy point of view, one could think that using open-source software as part of your competitive advantage lowers the barrier to new entrants. Read more...

Feedback is one of the most important ways you can engage in with members of your team1. Employees have the right to know what they are doing well and what they need to improve. Sometimes, however, people in management or supervisor positions find it difficult to give feedback to their team members. They don’t want to be known as ‘harsh’ bosses, or they put up the excuse that they don’t want to dishearten or demotivate their reports. Read more...

Disney is shutting down LucasArts, the computer game division of Lucasfilm1. In the 1980s and 90s, LucasArts created popular games like the Star Wars saga, and the Monkey Island series. Lucasfilm, founded by George Lucas in 1971, produced film franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. It was acquired by Walt Disney Co. in October of 2012. ↩ Read more...

Mark Suster interviews Clayton Christensen at Startup Grind 2013. Christensen is author of the The Innovator’s Dilemma1, and professor at Harvard Business School. Helped by Suster’s excellent questions, Christensen talks about how disruption can affect different industries. He also explains the perils he forsees for now market leaders like Harvard University and Apple. From the voice Innovator’s Dilemma on Wikipedia: First published in 1997, Christensen suggests that successful companies can put too much emphasis on customers’ current needs, and fail to adopt new technology or business models that will meet customers’ unstated or future needs; he argues that such companies will eventually fall behind. Read more...

Clutter can be a source of distraction and an obstacle to getting work done. A cluttered desk, or its electronic counterpart, your laptop’s desktop and your mail inbox, can affect your productivity. In your defense, you can quote Albert Einstein famous quote1: If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk But chances are that if our desk is a mess, it’s not because we are like Einstein, but because we postpone small decisions over the things that land on our desktop. Read more...