I came across this interesting post about programming and happiness. According to the Dolores Lab blog perl programmers are likely to be most happy.
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I came across this interesting post about programming and happiness. According to the Dolores Lab blog perl programmers are likely to be most happy.
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I had skimmed this article, on crowd-sourcing, by Michael Andersen few weeks ago and has been looking forward to reading and blogging about it.
Andersen interviewed the key developer from Guardian of London to understand how they got 20,000 plus Brit’s to help uncover the biggest political scandal to hit British shores in decades.
Andersen interviewed the developer, Simon Willison, for tips about deadline-driven software and crowdsourcing. Here are the 4 major tips to successfully engage a crowd for crowdsourcing.
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Asking the right questions can help subordinates gain confidence and be better contributors says Michael J. Marquardt, the author of Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
Judith Ross notes on HBR Blog that leaders need to ask questions that inspire folks to think in new ways, expand range of vision, and enable greater contribution to the organization. Both Judith and Michael suggest that empowering knowledge workers involve encouragement to be better thinkers and problem solvers.
Judith suggests that empowering questions create following values:
To read a more complete post on what questions leaders need to ask and how to create a culture that embraces questions, read Judith’s HBR blog entry here.
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