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Category Archives: Management
Have You Met With My Advisory Board ?
On the eve of critical business decisions or during tough times, I try to imagine what would these great people would mentor me with their valuable suggestions if they were alive and exists in my advisory board. I have read … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Philosophy
Tagged advisory board, Atatürk, Dale Carnegie, matsushita, mentor, Napoleon Hill, Peter Drucker, steve jobs
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A’s hire A’s, B’s hire C’s
One of the Donald Rumsfeld‘s (13th and 21st US Secretary of Defense) rules is: “A’s hire A’s, B’s hire C’s“ which reminds the recruiter to hire the best people, who may even be smarter and more talented than than the recruiter. The … Continue reading
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s 3 arguments for favoring partnership
In my previous post with the title: “Solo Entrepreneurship vs Partnership“, I favored having a partner as opposed to solo entrepreneurship, (i.e. solopreneurs). A few minutes ago, I have seen a tweet from Rosabeth Moss Kanter who is an influential … Continue reading
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Power and Authority
Power means “the ability to influence people“. For example, if you have the ability to persuade your friends to move in the same direction as you do, then you have the power. Authority is the “official power“. For example if you are … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management
Tagged authority, ethics, five bases of power, french and raven, influence, integrity, moral values, official power, persuade, power, walk your talk
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Seven sins that “engineer entrepreneurs” should unlearn?
I am an engineer entrepreneur. I am proud to be an engineer and I use most of the excellent principles of engineering. But there are some habits of engineering that I needed to unlearn to be a better entrepreneur: Seven Habits(**) … Continue reading
Posted in Engineer, Entrepreneurship, Management
Tagged assumption, chaos, constraint, engineer entrepreneur, know how, know who, linear, low hanging fruit, non-linear, order, paradigm, Stephen Covey, trade off, uncertainty
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Simple Strategy: Do it FIRST (and/or) Do it BEST !
First advice: Do it FIRST, do it BEST. Second advice: If you can not do both, then choose either one of them. If you can not still manage to be first or to be best, then try to be unique … Continue reading
Is luck a coincidence?
In one of my previous posts, I have talked about the role of luck in Entrepreneurship. This is one of questions that I ask to entrepreneurs. Zeki Çalışır, is a successful and experienced businessman whose ideas I respect. When I asked … Continue reading
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40+ approach
In this post, I would like to just quote Brian Tracy’s 40 plus formula: “You work 40 hours per week for survival. Everything over 40 hours is for success. Every hour over 40 is an investment in your future. The average … Continue reading
Evolution of Mobile Internet
In 1999, when we have founded Done Information and Communication Systems, mobile Internet equated WAP and mobile messaging channel was composed of only SMS. In those days, it was possible to store applications in 3,5” 1,44 MB floppy disk. While … Continue reading
Solo Entrepreneur vs. Partnership
A business needs to be drived by at least three different and somehow conflicting roles. This resembles but not the same as the “seperation of powers” in governance of a state. Business perspective: This quality resides in people who can … Continue reading
