Nerd Stalker

Rebecca Teasdale Shares How to Create a Culture of Openness and Candor Photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer By Rebecca Teasdale Recently, a colleague and I were at a dinner function with a group of leaders from a client company. We found ourselves seated at a table with a new member of the executive team who we were meeting for the first time. Waiting for the plated meals to arrive, we eased into the conversation with small talk about sports and weather and then we went deeper inquiring about his family, his career, his thoughts on the industry. When the dinner wrapped up 45 minutes later, my colleague and I had learned a lot about him. We had learned about his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street. Yet, he had learned nothing about me or my colleague. In 45 minutes of conversation, he hadn’t asked either of us a single question. Sadly, this common, self-absorbed style of relating has reached new, alarming le...

In this episode I talk to Erich Buhler about the in's and out's of being an agile product owner and when and how to say no to the stakeholders. Erich Bühler is the founder director, main mentor and trainer at Innova1st. He began his professional career in 1993 and spent several years in positions of different global enterprises in Uruguay, Spain, London, Malta and New Zealand before establishing his own company. His beginnings were in software, which gave him the bases to know in depth the problematic and transition towards a digital and agile organization. He has helped several private and governmental initiatives, he is a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional, outstanding youth 2002 in Uruguay, has several publications (McGraw-Hill) as well as he is the creator of Enterprise Social Systems. He usually collaborates with Scrum Alliance and runs seminars around the world. As an international presenter, he has gained recognition of different types of aud...

Scred is a Finnish startup that helps groups of people manage their money. It allows bands, associations, businesses, etc, to keep track of their accounting, finance, send invoices, manage an online shop. The business model is a small transaction fee. The service recently launched a "version 2", with an improved design and simplified user experience, which Kristoffer Lawson (co-founder and CEO) describes in the video. Scred is a service for managing money for groups of people. With it you can track income, profit, debt, revenues and shared expenses between the members of a group. Used by e.g. flatmates, travelers, bands, hobby groups, mini-businesses, amateur film creators and artists.

(4mins) Nerd Stalker interview with co-founder of Bandize , Andy Miles. Bandize helps bands take control of their careers by giving them a simple way to get organized. They created a suite of DIY tools all available and packaged in one smooth, cohesive web application. View more demos here: Dashboard , Shows/Tours , Track Finances , Contacts .