Topics
Finance and budgeting
- A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses
- Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price
- Metrics for cyclical businesses
- Stock buybacks
Investing
Product development
- Queuing theory and product development
- A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses
- The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate
- So you want to ship the product early?
General Management
- Customer Equity
- The best and worst job in the company
- Tricks of the trade
- Woe be the average man
- Magic elixirs for business
- What goes around
- How to get laid off
Research
Strategy
- Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price
- But thinking makes it so
- The experience curve
- Mommy, it's not fair!
- Attacking the entrenched competitor
Marketing and sales
Operations and Manufacturing
People and culture
- Silicon Valley melting pot
- What goes around
- Tricks of the trade
- Thank you Japan
- Bah, humbug
- How to get laid off
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