A pinch of naive is the price to innovate

One of my responsibility is “creating and implementing sales improving initiatives”, i’m new to this responsibility, so i’ve been called inexperience and even naive. For me, the inexperience part is inevitable since i’m still quite young, but naive part, is really, a deliberate option on my part.

Sense of Ownership

I. The situation In my team, I have great staff members and not so great ones. Let’s talk a bit about definition about “great” and “not so great” before we continue: Great: independent in completing a job; able to balance finding own solution with checking with me when faced with issues; take time to think [...]

Is it really there? This difference between the gen Y’s and the other generations?

I’ve read some articles (newspaper, mags, blogs, and pieces of books) about the difference between Gey Y (~ 1980-1999), Gen X (~ 1965-1980) and Baby Boomers (~ 1945-1965) in the work place. I wonder whether these articles are really relevant, some parts of it is not, but i found some part of comparison which are [...]

Ridicilious mark up by indonesian software distributor

Recently i was evaluating a very nice looking visual mining software named Advizor. The software allows a very visual manipulation of a large data set, it doesn’t provide the deep analysis afforded by SAS data mining tool, or the more automatic approach by SPSS PASW modeler, but it greatly support business user with some interest [...]

Predictive algorithm and what’s so great about the Netflix Prize

Well, on the surface, nothing much. But it represent increasing interest on a very promising field. It’s million dollar prize for computer expert and statistician that can improve a set of algorithm (a set of rules to be executed by computer). Netflix, the companies who pay for this $1 million reward, is a movie rental [...]

Why does being a good boss is so difficult?

Because being a bad one is so easy Ok first, how do you become a good boss?