7 posts and columns on evaluation

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Management Debt

in Voices on January 18 at 10:07 am PT

Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

in News on May 30, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

No position in a company is more important than the CEO, and as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs, as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction. By describing how Andreessen Horowitz evaluates CEOs, I am at the same time describing what I think the job of the CEO is.

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The Scale Anticipation Fallacy

in News on May 7, 2010 at 2:55 pm PT

The other day, I was talking to a couple friends of mine, one a VC and the other a CEO. During the meeting, we were discussing one of the executives at the CEO’s company. The executive in question performs exceptionally, but lacks experience managing at larger scale.

Bartz of 100 Days: Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks

in News on April 13, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

Here’s an interesting irony–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 p.m. PST. Technically, it will mean that she has been running Yahoo for 100 days, a time when most administrations get their first evaluation. Thus, if it’s good enough for President Obama, it’s good enough for Bartz! While most expect the results for the quarter to be weak, due to the econalypse, the overall verdict from BoomTown’s needling of Yahoos to give me info on their new leader recently: Love, love, love Bartz’s innate decisiveness, and wanting more of the same.
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Grading Neighborhood Schools

in The Mossberg Solution on February 20, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Education-related Web sites that provide free school comparisons can help parents choose one for their children, but some sites are more helpful than others.
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