Business – BLOSTR

Transforming your IT Professional Services company to a Managed Services provider?

Posted on 05/03/2018 by leos

One of the goals I faced both in the IT corporate environment, as well as later on when freelancing & building up my own businesses was how to transition from a body-shopping business (sell people on projects per hour / day / week / month) into something more sustainable as service provider or managed services […]

The non-sense of job titles

Posted on 02/03/201801/03/2018 by leos

One of the first things I faced when reinstating my LinkedIn account was stumbling upon one of the first forms to fill out “What is you current job title”. It got me thinking. While technically speaking I am freelancing, running own company from about 2014, what title should I choose? CEO? I’m anything but corporate. Managing […]

Why we ended up focusing on daily deliverables?

Posted on 20/06/201520/06/2015 by leos

Recently, I’ve read Ted Bauer’s article “Daily deliverables murdered strategy”. While I agree with most of the points there, I thought it could be worth looking at what made us to focus on the daily deliverables in the first place. Many of us who were at any level in the corporate world would remember either […]

It’s not about you

Posted on 12/03/201513/03/2015 by leos

Prince Roger Nelson known by his mononym Prince is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. On top of that, he is a genius, great business person and leader. What promted me to write this post anyway? Recently, I stumbled upon one song I particularly remembered from the early 90s. The song in question was “Love […]