There is no perfect job

I suppose we all know that there are always some "ifs" and "buts". Edge Pereira wrote a blog post about a few of them that are related to human-human interaction. If I had to choose a single sentence from his post I would go for this one: "if an employee does not know the reason of his daily work, he will never wear the company's jersey". Needles to say I totally agree with the whole post.

Tags: Job, People

From forestry to IT - channel 9 show

Peter Spiro is one of these guys who took unusual steps to get into IT. It's enough to have a look at him to figure out that he is more then interesting :) .  The whole conversation is about people and how to manage them in a way that both the Company and they benefit from it. It's first time I heard that we need to build properly layered systems just because there are some smart guys out there that want to unplug an old component and replace it with their own - better :).  
The next thing that absorbed my attention was his list of features that a good team should be characterized by:

• trust
• diversity
• no single man show
• shared responsibility
• passion

It looks like a list of obvious things but you would be surprised how many teams lack 2 or more of them. And the last but not least, he knows what the work-life balance is. It was a well spent hour :).