Letzte reliabledisappointment.com News Mobile carriers to attack Google? The British Sunday Telegraph reports that major European mobile carriers are planning for a secret meeting at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this year in order to form a coalition against Google. According to the article, the mobile carriers like to keep the future revenue from mobile advertisment within their boundaries and hence will [...]... Shit rolls downhill! (even or especially in Consulting) The “shit rolls downhill” presentation has been around for years. Most likely since consulting and PowerPoint is around. It has been adopted by many other industries and, yes, it works for nearly any service-driven industry. I’ve been sent the presentation long time ago, always had it on my mind, but just today I found it [...]... Really bad PowerPoint Seth Godin features a real nice review of good and bad PowerPoint technique in his blog. I agree that a number of these rules are as old as PowerPoint, netherless I wish people would finally adopt them - still only 10% (if at all) of all presentations I see, and this definitly includes decks produced [...]... My GTD tool of choice is ‘Remember The Milk’ - or MilkGTD as I like to call it When starting to use Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen as my chosen personal productivity methodology, I went down the longhaul journey finding myself the most suitable “trusted system” around. You’ll find lots and lots of little tools and helpers, full desktop applications or hosted, web-based solution as you surf along 43folders.com or other great [...]... Treating change as an opportunity, not as a threat When a new acquisition happens on the market - and there were hundreds if not thousands in 2006 - the usual song of synergies, new market potential and growth is performed by the responsible top execs. But looking behind the scenes shows something different: Only a small percentage of all mergers and acquisition projects turn out [...]... 40 words of wisdom on day-2-day consulting work I’ve been collecting good quotes and words of wisdom in my day-2-day consulting work. Most of the words can be applied to nearly any work environment, but all of them get you a real glipse of what you can our could say every now and then. Have fun! Of course I don’t look busy. I did [...]... GTD action-verbs versus project verbs Merlin Mann of 43Folders just posted another important GTD hack. Derived from David Allen’s Getting Things Done FAST! booklet, Merlin posted verbs describing next physical actions and how you can tell from the verb whether the verb implies a ‘next action’ or rather belongs to project. Great help and guideline, I must admit. It’ll help [...]... 10 Things Steve Olson Wishes He Had Never Believed Steve Olsen has a great summary of things that have been told or teached us over the years, and which we find out to be not true very late in the game (if we are unlucky). A good read and time for some self-reflection which is true for yourself and what ist not. At least [...]... The technical versus the adaptive change Change is the domination factor to organisations today. And where change happens you will find leaders at work. But very often the change itself has changed through the last years. Back some years change was about extending one’s business model, taking new products and services to the market or just make an organisation more lean and [...]... The grass next door is greener Most of the time people in senior positions are dissatisfied with their current role, organisation or challenges. They are looking around at companies doing more innovation, running major programmes or just making a larger impact to the market than one’s current organisation. But what is true for financial investments is also true for personal career development: The leading organisations [...]...