CHIEFARCHITECT

In terms of insider/outsider politics, the key factor is developing trust, collaboration and accountability from the start

One more thing. it is all about the process preceding the technology not the other way around.

Remote collaboration can work. It depends alot on how the goal and objectives is defined and relayed to the team. There is a strategy project consulting company in SF Bay Area that trains project teams to collaborate remotely.

Always know who you are hiring. Always verify by documenting.

A combination of a Tangible Vision, Mindmap and a task/objective list

Wondered if we have enough for a cookbook.

Is developing mobile phone application as an ID verifier the next hot trend?

Mozart and Bach! Agreed w/ one of the other entries. "Accept no substitutes for true greatness."

Believe you need a Tangible Vision. Know the basics for defining the planned outcome. It is a generalization of fundamentals, technical specifics and cyclical effects

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." -John N. Mitchell

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double entry accounting. -- from Shibumi , bestseller by Trevanian

UltraEdit is a pretty adequate text editor if one is willing to do some minor configuration. It took me only 30 mins to master it.

A txt editor is like most tools, one has to customize it to their needs and wants.

The sword does not make the samurai. It is the samurai that makes the sword go. (General View)

Recommend YiQuan. It is a set of Chinese standing exercise similar to Taiji and Yoga,that uses a simple visualization approach.

http://jadedragon.com/archives/martarts/yiquan01.html

Good luck.

Good viewpoint. As the PM/Marketing guy of a wireless startup, am working with a small product team. Always find it to be challenging to remind the team to focus on developing a product for the needs of the marketplace not what they think they like. Seen too many teams lose track of what they are doing. In most cases, it is their project manager that fails to build a Tangible Vision that the team collaboratively connect to..

Tried Bookfinder.com. Can't find it. Recommend that you use Bookfinder.com. Might get lucky next time around.

Paul Graham is so good, that C++ is called PG++