For those who haven't read it, Rework by The 37signals guys has a lot of pertinent stuff to say about their approach to business which is generally applicable to HP or any other business. Their argument about not being able to create a culture is, of course, accurate. What they don't say directly though is how easy it is to destroy a culture. It seems to me that just a handful of poor choices of CEO at HP has done exactly that.
Personally, I think getting out of the PC Hardware business hasn't done IBM any favours and nor will it HP. Too many of these decisions are made by bean counters not those who truly understand the business,
Does it ever happen? Your working hours are well known and programming (even kernel stuff) whilst occupying the mind does not satisfy the baser needs....:-)
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For those who haven't read it, Rework by The 37signals guys has a lot of pertinent stuff to say about their approach to business which is generally applicable to HP or any other business. Their argument about not being able to create a culture is, of course, accurate. What they don't say directly though is how easy it is to destroy a culture. It seems to me that just a handful of poor choices of CEO at HP has done exactly that.
Personally, I think getting out of the PC Hardware business hasn't done IBM any favours and nor will it HP. Too many of these decisions are made by bean counters not those who truly understand the business,
Does it ever happen? Your working hours are well known and programming (even kernel stuff) whilst occupying the mind does not satisfy the baser needs.... :-)
You say you don;t use EMACS or VI for editing - so what do you use? More importantly WHY?