![]() I was discussing this topic with a colleague today. LaunchBar's configuration UI, btw, could use a bit of work.įantasy Economics - Why economists are obsessed with online role-playing games. it's twice as useful as it was! Just by doing less - and more. So I applied that knowledge to launchbar: (I want a searchbar that integrates google search with searching my blogs and bloglines subscriptions.) I use them for a few frequent things, otherwise I search Google and/or my blogs. (Yes, categories as in gmail work as well or better, but folder names are what one gets nowadays.)Ĥ. They provide a sort of enclosing metadata. Full text indexing of folder names is VERY useful - especially as one learns to create descriptive folder names. Full text indexing of the file system isn't as useful as I'd have thought. Way better than any currently popular file system, and all "free".Ģ. Email has tons of metadata - people's names, all kinds of dates, surrounding text, subject lines, file names, etc. ![]() Why does email indexing work better than full text indexing of the file system? In a word. In fact, the easiest way to locate a file on my work machine is to find it as an attachment, identify the file name, and then find the current version in my file system. Fortunately I've had lots of experience with indexing software over the last few months (mostly on XP - Lookout and several others). Turns out it was indexing my folder names - but the data was lost in the noise of indexed address book entries, bookmarks, file names, etc. I'd never bothered to use it beyond its basic program launcher capabilities. It wasn't until I read this article, however, that I realized it's supposed to index my folder names. I really miss it when I suffer with my XP machines. : From NEXTSTEP to Now: An Interview with LaunchBar's Norbert Heger Focus on the customer and not the competition. Get online and learn from the customer.ħ. R&D must deliver value-added stuff for the customer.Ħ. Work toward increasing demand verses supply.ĥ. Communicate directly with the customer.ģ. Don't underestimate the value of information.Ģ. Make yourself valuable to the customer.ġ. Always think bottom line (find ways to help the customer cut costs).Ĥ. Run with suggestions from the customer.ģ. Don't forget that customers have different fears, questions, and sensitivities.Ģ. Cultivate commitment to personal growth.ĥ. Don't leave the talent search to human resources.Ĥ. Achieve velocity by selecting the minimum number of parts that will cover the largest portion of the market sector.ģ. Information Technology must reduce obstacles to the origin and flow of information.ġ5. Focus on getting quality information and decreasing inventory.ġ4. The quality of information is proportional to the amount inventory. Segmentation offers the solution to rapid growth.ġ2. Interject functional excellence and maintain accountability.ġ1. Communication is the most important tool in recovering from mistakes.ġ0. Slow and steady growth with a focus on liquidity.ĩ. If you hire good people they will bring other good people to the organization.Ĩ. The PC was going to be the business choice for the future.ĥ. Commitment to produce high quality and high performance product.Ĥ. Opportunity is part immersion and part instinct.ģ. If there is a way to get something done more quickly and easily, try it.Ĩ. Try to identify potential problems early and fix them.Ħ. ![]() Every new growth opportunity has a level of risk.Ĥ. Success is a matter of learning and identifying core strengths.ģ. Build a business on what people want instead of what you think they want:Ģ. Michael Dell exhibits the type of leadership that a 'Good to Great' company should have.ġ. In 1999, it was worth $18 billion and had experienced a 36,000 percent growth. Between 1984-87, Michael Dell managed to take his company from a $1,000 hobby to a $160 million business. Keep in mind that these may be more what the Dell company "says" than what it "does". ummm.Īnyway, here's a list of (somewhat repetitive) alleged Dell aphorisms, taken from comments to the above story. Their web services are poor and their customer support worse.ĭell is worth billions, I'm worth. I think Dell makes fairly lousy products that cost too much. : IDC: Handheld Market Declines 3rd Consecutive Quarter
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