Five Blogs – 31 January 2013

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Sometimes Negative Feedback is Best
Written by: Heidi Grant Halvorson

Experiment Like an Expert
Written by: Susan Mazza

Why would I need excuses?
Written by: Tony Bruce

The Boeing Debacle: Seven Lessons Every CEO Must Learn
Written by: Steve Denning

Something Old, Something New
Written by: John Stevenson

Quote of the day:
“Pretending to be certain about uncertain things does not make them certain.” -Ben Simo

Five Blogs – 30 January 2013

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Productivity against Creativity?
Written by: Francisco Sáez

Break Your Routine
Written by: Skip Prichard

On the Road to Continuous Delivery
Written by: Yassal Sundman

What Can You Do With A Brick
Written by: Robert Lambert

Who defines Testing?
Written by: Geir Gulbrandsen

Quote of the day:
“The Extreme Leader is a generator, a powerful force for action, for progress, and an enthusiastic believer in people.” -Steve Farber

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Five Blogs – 29 January 2013

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Welcome to the Walled Garden: When leadership is really just bullying
Written by: Marlena Compton

My First Job Spoiled Me
Written by: Woody Zuill

Context Driven Answering
Written by: James Thomas

10 Portfolio Management practices to avoid
Written by: Ian Carroll

Less Aesthetic, More Design
Written by: Wells Riley

Quote of the day:
“The more time and effort someone spends looking for someone else to blame for a problem, the less the chance of solving the problem.” -Jerry Weinberg

Five Blogs – 28 January 2013

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9 reasons why command and control organisations despise thinking
Written by: Think Purpose

How do we get to WE?
Written by: John Wenger

Doing Something Every Day Is Hard
Written by: Craig Jarrow

The Nonsense of the Maturity Level
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

DevOps definition: Best explained by what it’s not
Written by: Jennifer Lent

EXTRA:

Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse
Written by: Beth Comstock

Quote of the day:
“Our employees love what they do and throw themselves into the work, so they achieve much more than anyone would expect.” -Richard Branson

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Five Blogs – 25 January 2013

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Placing Strategic Bets in the Face of Uncertainty
Written by: Roger Martin

Why Having a Trustworthy Reputation is Everything
Written by: Christopher Avery

The Bipolar Life Of A Software Tester
Written by: Eric Jacobson

Don’t be an over-motivated under-achiever
Written by: Dan Miller

Why You’re Not A Leader
Written by: Mike Myatt

Quote of the day:
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Five Blogs – 24 January 2013

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The Team Performance Curve
Written by: Mark Miller

You’ll Regret Not Capturing These 10 Pieces of Information
Written by: Craig Jarrow

Lessons Learned While Testing Loosely-Coupled Systems
Written by: Joe Strazzere

I’ve Got a Feeling: Emotions in Testing
Written by: Michael Bolton

Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes
Written by: Peter Sims

Quote of the day:
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” -Viktor E. Frankl

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Five Blogs – 23 January 2013

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Your First Mastermind
Written by: Randy Gage

Spending Versus Investing Time
Written by: Thanh Pham

9 Surefire Ways To Destroy Employee Morale
Written by: Kim Bhasin

The Agile Testing tribe
Written by: Laurent Bossavit

5 Ways Leaders Botch Communication – Without Saying a Word
Written by: Amy Beth Miller

Quote of the day:
“The time is always right to do what is right.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Five Blogs – 22 January 2013

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Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning
Written by: Peter Bregman

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – A Serving Leader
Written by: Mark Miller

What’s the first task a tester should do?
Written by: Dan Ashby

Do your best with what you get
Written by: Johan Jonasson

Starting a New Job in Testing
Written by: Stephen Janaway

Quote of the day:
“Productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is.” -Eli Goldratt

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Five Blogs – 21 January 2013

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10 Why’s & Ways to Shut Up and L I S T E N
Written by: Alan Kay

Logic before all
Written by: Meeta Sengupta

Three Elements of Great Communication, According to Aristotle
Written by: Scott Edinger

How Switching Tasks Maximizes Creative Thinking
Written by: Christian Jarrett

xBTM: Harnessing the Power of Exploratory Testing
Written by: Christin Wiedemann

Quote of the day:
“People will only be interested in your message if you are adding value to the world.” -Karen Kang

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Five Blogs – 18 January 2013

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Oracles: The Brainstream Media
Written by: Michael Bolton

Step Back to Lead Forward
Written by: Anne Perschel

Auld Lang Syne
Written by: Gerald Weinberg

Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation
Written by: Nilofer Merchant

Nine Strategies Successful People Use to Overcome Stress
Written by: Heidi Grant Halvorson

Quote of the day:
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” -Viktor E. Frankl

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