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Comment on More Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs by Wabb

Wabb — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:04:29 +0000

Thanks GW. I agree. Jobs accomplished incredible things. I just can’t help but wonder how great he would have been, and how much more he would have accomplished had he taken a different approach.

You can have incredibly high standards (he did) and still treat people with dignity and respect (he apparently didn’t). The two aren’t mutually exclusive, though often we assume they are to excuse rude behaviors.

I also believe we can learn as much from leadership anti-patterns as we can from leadership patterns…

Comment on More Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs by Geoffrey Weber

Geoffrey Weber — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:02:12 +0000

Timely and spot on. While the Jobs biography was entertaining, I found far more useful leadership advice in the first 30 pages of Paula Broadwell’s “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus” than the entirety of Isaacson’s work.

Comment on How to Choose a Development Methodology by Lotta

Lotta — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:02:26 +0000

This could not possliby have been more helpful!

Comment on An Open Mindset by fish

fish — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:21:29 +0000

Thanks John, great comment.

Comment on An Open Mindset by John Miles

John Miles — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:11:17 +0000

I agree. Way too often it is the sacred cow that gets in the way of innovation. It is far easier to do things the same way than it is to approach them from a different angle and taking what may seem like the more difficult path. Many of the breakthrough business outcomes I have been part of came from letting go and getting the team to see things differently and what the possibilities could become.

Comment on Information Hunter-Gatherers by Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:28:19 +0000

That’s really thninikg out of the box. Thanks!

Comment on IT Conversations Podcast by laurenceB

laurenceB — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:33:58 +0000

Great article — where can I find part 1?

Comment on Active-Passive and Spare Tires by fish

fish — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:06:31 +0000

Nicely stated, thanks!

Comment on Active-Passive and Spare Tires by Jason Taylor

Jason Taylor — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:48:56 +0000

Hi Fish,
You make excellent points here. The bottom line is that it is a cost-benefit analysis that should be taken seriously and if you choose the lower cost solution being the passive collo, you better test it frequently or else you are just wasting money on a spare tire that may or may not have a hole in it as well when you need it.

Comment on Active-Passive and Spare Tires by fish

fish — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:08:51 +0000

Hi Jason, thanks for the comment.

If the plan is to be able to handle as much traffic in the passive datacenter as you do normally then you’ll need the same or equivalent servers, storage, network, etc. in which case the ROI is always going to be better in the active-active solution. If, as you mention, you just want to hobble along until the main datacenter is restored then you could put older equipement or less of it in the passive datacenter and then just have some plan for rationing your service such as throttling traffic or allowing a subset of users on the site. In this case the ROI might be better with the active-passive but you should also factor in the lost revenue short and long term from running for a period of time in a degraded service.

Another alternative that works for some companies for a cheap passive datacenter, is a cloud provider. If you are willing to put in the work to setup and maintain the cloud environment so that it can scale when needed, this can be a very cost effective solution.