According to Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski, an organizational psychologist and professor of business at New York University, there are three approaches towards work you can take. You can treat your work as a job, career or calling. The workers with the “calling” approach are happier and more satisfied with their life and work. Interestingly, Wrzesniewski’s research […]
10 Business Lessons to Learn from the Beatles
I’d recommend reading Larry Lange’s “The Beatles Way: Fab Wisdom for Everyday Life” – a pretty interesting, light, non-preachy book on the subject. I don’t have the book with me, but some takeaway points I remember: Build the best team that you can find Ditch your Pete Best for a better Ringo. Be willing […]
12 Ways to Create a Happy Workplace Culture
Doug Conant once said, “To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.” By believing and constantly implementing/sharing this mantra, he was able to turn things around for his company. According to research an average person devotes 90,000 hours of their life to work. It is a significant amount of time that makes us […]
What’s the craziest thing you have said to your boss?
Thomas, Manager I started as the only person in the tech department of a consulting and training company. The company had just spent about $30K (if I recall accurately) on a nice looking, but not at all user friendly new website design. It had been languishing for months due to the company they’d contracted dragging […]
What do I need to do to manage a UX team effectively?
Talking about managing a UX team, it’s actually things about UX leadership. Though not an entirely new one, UX leadership definitely goes viral in plenty industries. Since Steve Jobs pioneered in leading product design as the CEO, UX leader came into being. (We wrote about the Lessons to Learn from Steve Jobs for your Startup.) […]
Business Lessons to Learn from Jay-Z
At a young age I simply enjoyed his music. He knew how to create tracks that you could not only bob your head to but also relate to in one way or another. As his music matured and he began creating his legacy rather than just a hip-hop career; my opinion of Jay-Z went from, […]
Why does a startup need a product manager if it has an UX team?
UX folks typically focus on ways to make products/services EASIER TO USE: for instance through better workflows, consistent images or analogies, stepwise value analysis, follow-them-home studies, etc. If that were the ONLY ingredients in successful products, then we wouldn’t need product managers. And perhaps we wouldn’t need engineers. Product managers should be thinking […]
How do you know if your startup idea already exists?
If I need to know does my idea already exist or not, I should start with searching on Google. Obviously, if the competitors’ information don’t show up on search engines, it means they are not popular enough to take into account, or the idea actually haven’t exists. In order to get the optimal result, I […]