Success in your business

The success of your business reflects the amount of love you have for it. Want a more success business? Ask yourself if you can find a way to love it more. Love is the doorway, and you are the key. Remember: education changes everything. Gleen Head

Frank Bettger <------------>Benjamin Franklin
Enthusiasm: Force yourself to act enthusiastic.Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Order: Self Organization. Take more time to think and do things in the order of importance. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Think of other's interests.Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Questions: Cultivate the art of asking questions.Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Key issue. The most important secret os salesmanship is to find out what the others fellow wants, and then help him the best way to get it.Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e, waste nothing.
Silence: Listen. Keep you avoid talking too much.Industry - Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Sincerity: Deserve confidence.Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Knowledge: Know your business and keep knowing your businessJustice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Appreciation & PraiseModeration: Avoid extremes; forbear reseting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Smile: HappinessCleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body. Cloaths, or habitation.
Remember faces and names.Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Service and prospecting.Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Closing the sale: action.Humility..

Thursday, July 31, 2008

broken window theory

Bill Venners: How does technical debt relate to the broken window theory?

Andy Hunt: You don't want to let technical debt get out of hand. You want to stop the small problems before they grow into big problems. Mayor Guiliani used this approach very successfully in New York City. By being very tough on minor quality of life infractions like jaywalking, graffiti, pan handling—crimes you wouldn't think mattered—he cut the major crime rates of murder, burglary, and robbery by about half over four or five years.

In the realm of psychology, this actually works. If you do something to keep on top of the small problems, they don't grow and become big problems. They don't inflict collateral damage. Bad code can cause a tremendous amount of collateral damage unrelated to its own function. It will start hurting other things in the system, if you're not on top of it. So you don't want to allow broken windows on your project.

As soon as something is broken—whether it is a bug in the code, a problem with your process, a bad requirement, bad documentation—something you know is just wrong, you really have to stop and address it right then and there. Just fix it. And if you just can't fix it, put up police tape around it. Nail plywood over it. Make sure everybody knows it is broken, that they shouldn't trust it, shouldn't go near it. It is as important to show you are on top of the situation as it is to actually fix the problem. As soon as something is broken and not fixed, it starts spreading a malaise across the team. "Well, that's broken. Oh I just broke that. Oh well."

Posted by Javier Theurel at 10:34 AM

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