Three Loosing and Winning Approaches in Web Hosting

By Nicolae Iordache Iordache On March 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

ROHOST. They were hosting this website for three years already. Yearly, they were sending me an automatic renewal message and I generally paid (about €70). However, this year I dared to check whether they have better offers for the services I was interested in. No surprise: they were offering better services at lower cost. [...]

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Reading iLeadership

By Nicolae Iordache Iordache On March 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I was travelling the other day by train from Innsbruck to Budapest reading “Steve Jobs, iLeadership...” from Publica. In front of me was a guy listening music from an iPod. Across the corridor were two others: one working on a huge MacBook Pro and the other one watching a movie [...]

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When owning a problem radically changes behavior!

By Nicolae Iordache Iordache On February 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

When owning a problem radically changes behavior!

I happen to have a neighbor, a taxi driver, who drives many of us crazy with his selfish behavior: he parks his taxi disregarding others who can hardly squeeze to their parking slots, advice his (many) guests to park wherever they feel blocking 3-4 cars at once and [...]

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A Kodak film photographed with my smartphone as I am writing this post.

Kodak’s Faith and Lessons

By Nicolae Iordache Iordache On January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I have just learned this morning about Kodak heading straight foreword to bankruptcy.

In the late 19th century, George Eastman (the father of Kodak) envisioned to “make the camera as convenient as a pencil”. And his company practically did it through a series of innovations over about a century. They made the first portable dry [...]

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Why Sandwich Feedback Sucks?

By Nicolae Iordache Iordache On January 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

“What was the last sandwich you had? Was it with ham? Or maybe cheese? Possibly fish? Or… salami… egg… tomatoes???”

“It was actually with a lot of… bread!”

Give me a break… all sandwiches are with bread! We do not remember the bread; it is seldom memorable! We always remember what is inside. Bread [...]

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