Tag Archives: Productivity

Sunday Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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Take Away: Building Teams and Leading them is very simple, but very difficult. Reminds me [...]

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Encouraging Institutional Innovation By Changing How We Educate

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives has an excellent article on challenging mindsets from reverse innovation to innovation blowback. It reinforces our mindset in why we are passionate about how Gangplank is structured and why concepts brought out in Gangplank Jr [...]

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Thoughts on “What Matters Now?”

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

Several people pointed me to What Matters Now? (Download the PDF e-book version) arranged by Seth Godin.  I glanced over it and thought it looked interesting, but didn’t have time to read it.  I got around to analyzing it last [...]

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Sunday Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

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Take Away: If you desire to understand how your brain works and how you learn this [...]

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Sunday Review: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

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Take Away: Deliberate practice is hard work, but is the only sure way to becoming excellent [...]

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Sunday Review: Driven From Within by Michael Jordan

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

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Take Away: Jordan proves that talent had little to do with his rise to success. He [...]

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Incentives Kill Creativity

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

The other day I had jotted down about wanting to talk about incentives killing creativity, because something someone said pissed me off. I put it in my GTD list and forgot about it. I came back today to [...]

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Make Use of Your Library and Read For Free!!!

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

I have recently rediscovered the awesomeness of the Maricopa County Public Library system.  My family has started going there again and when the kids asked recently, I took them instead of the wife.  I picked up a book or two [...]

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Unix Tip #4 (Tail)

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

Learn to wag your unix tail.  Get those log file viewing habits under control.

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TextMate Tip #8 (Ruby on Rails File Navigation)

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

Navigate RoR files with MVC pattern.

TextMate Tip #8 (Ruby on Rails Navigating Files) from Derek Neighbors on Vimeo.

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