Tag Archives: theory

5 Steps to Achieving Great Things

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

If you want to achieve really big things. The kinds of things that people believe to be difficult, improbable or even impossible.  It will require passion, purpose, planning and the ability to execute actions. To accomplish them you [...]

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Political Bites: Lessons from September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

What most lasting lesson should Southeast Valley residents take from the events of Sept. 11, 2001?
The lesson we can all learn is that a community united is capable of tremendous things.  The human spirit is caring and compassionate and extremely [...]

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The Future, It’s About People..

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

We have been talking about concepts in software development for the last few years at Integrum getting back to humanity.  That the separation of goals and values between developers, product owners and users is out of control.  We have executed [...]

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What is the Motivation of Making Gangplank Free?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

A common question is “How does Gangplank work?  Why is everything free?”.  The common theory is that if you don’t charge people something they won’t see any value in it.  Maybe if they are working on an assembly line, but [...]

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The World is Changing and so is our Economy

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

We might be in the midst of a recession, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet.  Most of America is not willing to acknowledge a few key concepts.
1. Things won’t bounce back to where they were, expect recovery [...]

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Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I read  “A case against ‘free trial coworking‘” by Alex Hillman from IndyHall and it reminded why I can’t relate to the coworking movement.  I purposefully use the word collaborative workspace when talking about Gangplank because implying that there is [...]

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Do We Want It Badly Enough?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Richard Florida a leading economist talks answers the question “Will Phoenix rise from the ashes?“.

I am a firm believer that in fact we do need to build on our assets.  I say this every chance I get.  I often wonder [...]

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Get Deliberate

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

@tdhurst posted on “It never gets easier“.  A good post that had one of those triggers: Work Smarter, Not Harder.   Oddly, @evo_terra had posted something similar the other day on twitter.  I hear this all the time at work as [...]

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Sunday Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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