Windows live- no longer live?

Perhaps windows is paying a price for its success. Windows has become so ubiquitous that we take it for granted. Only thinking of it when there are problems.
clichttp://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=955094&f=111

The power of analytics

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=955095&f=111

How Zuckerberg does it?

Today is Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. At 28, is Zukerberg grown up enough to lead a public company valued at $ 100 billion (it was a startup 8 years ago), asks NYT. It goes on to list his style and his advisors.

Reed Hasting CEO of Netflix, a Facebook board member on IPO

Donald E Graham, CEO Washington Post on Management

Sheryl Sandberg CEO Facebook - mentor on operations management and communications.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder Netscape, FB Board member on Management and Product design.

Matt Cohler, Benchmark Capital (former FB VP) on Team Building and Company culture

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder, LinkedIn, on scaling businesses and on China

Peter Thiel, Co-founder Paypal on Corporate Strategy and Economic Issues

Sean Parker, co-founder, Napster on Financial Structure

Jim Breyer, Accel Partners on Hiring and Operations

Bill Gates on Philanthropy.

Quotable quote: "He is a sponge terms of learning. He has a higher ask-to-talk ratio than anyone else I know".
" He is constatnly asking 'Why?' Why? Why?' and he has a very clear sense of what he is good at and somewhere between average and medicore at"

Original article at: http://nyti.ms/J4lRAh

Advice for CEO's

Management lessons for CEO's from a venture capitalist New York times. http://nyti.ms/J4fvkz.

Gamification of dieting of executives.

Gamification - applying game techniques and psychology to influence behaviour. Used by corporate to motivate them to choose healthy eating habits. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/an-ibm-computer-program-rewards-healthy-diets.xml