How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business by Dave Hitz

How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business by Dave Hitz

Author:Dave Hitz
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780470443101
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2008-12-21T18:30:00+00:00


Steve Kleiman, our CTO at the time, had a theory about engineers and managers. He divided the world into people who have technical orgasms and people who have management orgasms, or TOs and MOs for short. A TO is when an engineer says, “What if we store the data in NV-RAM and not do the file allocation until later? By delaying that processing we’ll speed up the packet response time to the network and get better block layout optimization on the disk drive. . . . Whee!” Engineers are technology-centric. They focus on how things work, on what new technologies are available to solve problems, and on how old technologies are breaking down.



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