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Three responses to recession
How pressing, playing the odds, and driving results changes the game.
Coach a bully CEO
Brilliant CEOs look like bullies. Good boards know better.
as vendors of Lucifer matches
Henry David Thoreau:
It would be worth while,
once for all,
fairly and cleanly
to tell how we are to be used,
as vendors of Lucifer matches
send directions in the envelope,
both how…
How to do only that which you can do
How do we get started on a path to doing things that express our genius?
Experiencing insight: which comes first, age or beauty?
Can a group of eclectic and divergent innovators pick winners in ways “experienced” veterans can’t? Is experience all it’s made out to be when the game is new ventures?
Forget tailor-made, just get it second-hand.
In an offline note a good friend challenges the concept of new, tailor-made companies. Instead he asks, “What about companies that need tailors … companies that need a new dress, ugly companies, those ones that need new shoes…
Creating tailor-made companies
I keep running into amazing people. Each one stuck in a job that uses a tiny part of what they’re great at. Here’s a plan to use a bit more.
Synchronizing greatness
Here’s an unsolved riddle: How do we get the minds of widely dispersed, brilliant people to focus on critical problems/opportunities? How do we synchronize greatness?
Dave Pollard brought this up a few days ago. He writes:
“……
Invoking innovation: moving beyond serendipity
Innovative brilliance is fortuitous. It’s an accident. The challenge is moving beyond serendipity and to intention.
How would you be?
When you dream of an ideal space to do what you do best, what does it look like, sound like, and feel like?
Making my name
There’s an unobservable line between ambition and growth. Where movement can be too early, just right, or too late. When does growth stop and stagnation take over? When is a switch premature?
I don’t think the answer is outside us.…
Regaining the helm of time
You are invited to stop.
The brilliance of moments: how success is ultimately determined by now
I travel from Edmonton to Calgary and back almost every week. It’s a three hour drive one-way, so I have a big chunk of time to listen to podcasts. This week I listened to an interview, by…
Pimp your brand
I talked to Doug Hall last week — I’ve been trying to make a few important career choices and wanted his advice. He asked two questions: “where will you grow more” and “what adds more diversity”.
Growth and…
John Moore and JumboShrimp
Another great story from Brand Autopsy on the The Container Store. John Moore calls this a JumboShrimp story: companies that get bigger by being smaller.
He says The Container Store gains their edge over larger competitors through persistent…