Posts tagged “lead”
Reality channel
Who chooses? You or your filters?
Crystalline integrity
Integrity is fragile, critical and expensive.
Leverage brillance: embrace weakness
Problems are opportunities. What will crisis drive you to do?
Bigham’s system
Strong process is core to small business success.
Haute coutre, universal appeal
It’s only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Twitter tested, top two-week links
Most popular links, based on twitter account stats.
Arcing abundance and the future of limits
What does the Singularity invite us to ignore?
Pinnacles and plains
Stop bleeding brilliance. Find a pinnacle. Climb together.
Now
What changes if all we intend to give, is given now, instead of the future?
Labyrinth’s tangle
Bad is born of unbridled good. Wicked good is barely bridled.
Where bad became good
Drayton Valley is like many small Alberta towns except, its turning bad to good.
Preempting wicked problems
Were wicked problems once wicked goods. What flipped?
Loaded for battleships; firing without reason
In what ways will you do which things that change what course to what end?
Foundations for air castles
For impact investment to thrive, the castle needs a foundation.
Context of choice in impact investment
Impact investment means managing portfolios in addition to choosing individual investments.
Precision – a manifesto for impact investment
Drive investment: deliver results, be precise, embrace complexity and create clarity.
Being maker changes what?
What changes when we get more makers?
Wanted socks. Got advice.
When life is busy, advice is a third-level need.
Loaded for seagull, built for battleships
Two essential decisions lie between you and greatness.
Top ten reasons to never pay for foresight
How to avoid getting scammed by foresight vendors.
The ‘in’ and ‘no’ of innovation management
Business innovation starts on the inside. And, more often than not, it begins with No instead of Yes.
Three responses to recession
How pressing, playing the odds, and driving results changes the game.
Convert core competencies for value creation
To enjoy consistently superior performance, you need to know where to focus your practice.
Strategic fit of place
Strategic fit, between the character of place and local industries, increases investment success.
When awkward is best
For small companies, awkwardness is an oft unappreciated asset.
Three ways rituals change business
Which rituals for business would remind us of what matters most?
The renaissance of old technologies (or the cost of new in innovation)
Seeking innovation in only new places means giving up on the value and principles intrinsic in old technologies.
Principles of economics; meaningful as ever
Timeless principles matter
I’ve been lucky and had good teachers. The best encouraged my natural interests. One of these passions, probably inspired by countless fantasy novels growing up, is the timeless and often ancient principles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy …
Perfect logo
Help us choose our logo. List your three favourites and the reason for your choices.
Grow your business: better, not bigger
Small businesses, gazelles, and large corporations all face enormous pressure to grow. This pressure exists whether or not growth is a good idea.
Coach a bully CEO
Brilliant CEOs look like bullies. Good boards know better.
Coaches for CEOs
Goalies only stopped being twitchy when they started getting coached. Who helps quirky CEOs?
Terrior. Not frightening. Not a dog.
How the character of place influences and shapes everything it makes.
Key ways story-arcs change business strategy
The best writers arc their stories to intriguing and unexpected ends. Can we arc businesses too?
Set up your mind for better decisions
Our ability to understand issues is increasing exponentially but our mental hardwiring isn’t being upgraded. We understand more every day but instinctively respond to events like monkeys.
Gatherings that changed the world
From wikipedia on the Slovay Conference:
“Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world’s most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading
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How to be introspective
Introversion isn’t bad, it just has consequences.
Innovation begets innovation
Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs and Steel. In it Diamond describes one of the key principles of innovation: technology begets technology.
Using examples of neighbouring New Guinean, North American Indian, and Mexican Indian …
Finding your genius
The difference between success and obscurity is self-knowing.
Not enough time is all about trust
The natural timing of life requires trust.
Improv
It’s funny, improv is teaching us to be ourselves. I think, at its core, it’s a method for freeing ourselves from the straight jackets we’ve been taught to wear in various social settings. It frees us up to collaborate, persuade, …
Convergence or perfect
I just spent three weeks in Alberta with my wife’s family. While we were there her grandmother passed away. At and after the funeral we spent a lot of time marveling at the impact of that little lady’s life.
Invariably, …
Incentives and idea generation
This is fun stuff. Olivier Toubia, a Ph.D. candidate at the Marketing Group (MIT) has an article on Idea Generation, Creativity, and Incentives.
He writes:
“Idea generation is critical … However, there has been relatively little formal research on the
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Return on design
Interesting piece on design. The return on investment pieces are worth the trip through the 1OO+ slides.
This what I’m looking in my search for the viral framework. Any other leads out there? Tag it here.…
Abundance, Asia, and Automation
Provocative post at Worthwhile.
Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind sees three forces that are shaping work roles: Abundance, Asia, and Automation.
“Abundance leads us to move from valuing “utility” to “significance” in the things we own. …
Abductive thinking — not about kidnapping
I love design, even if my vanilla background and black text don’t prove it. In grade five I discovered that Ms. Faulkner gave A’s for illustrated stories and B’s for the plain text version. By 13 I knew that ladies …
The overview
Having caught their attention with the 60-second pitch, you immediately followed with the 5-minute version and now you’re invited to do a full-blast presentation. How to?
Again, Bill Joss and Fast Company nail down next steps.
Before you get to
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Presenting the bigger small picture: A racetrack analogy
The five-minute rundown, big brother of the 60-second pitch.
Copy cat
Update: Dr. Ronald S. Burt from the University of Chicago backs up everything written here and adds his idea about “structural holes” — the notion that people can find opportunities for creative thinking where there is no social structure. My …
Conditions of success
On the heels of my heartfelt yop – Frickin’ amazing vs. the long tail – as if guided by benevolent deities, I found “What really works.” With bemused resignation I note the publication date of July 2003 – if I …
What question lies at the heart of your work?
In Presence: Human purpose and the field of the future, Peter Senge and others asked leading scientists and business and social entrepreneurs, “What question lies at the heart of your work?”
Jumps out out at you eh?
Makes you …
Be insightful
Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution
“Today you can buy knowledge by the pound — from consultants hawking best practice, from the staff you’ve just hired from your competitor, and from all those companies that hope you will outsource everything. Yet
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Sing like you don’t need the money
Sharp post by John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing (by the way don’t go to his main page with Firefox, that pop-up he has is super annoying – bad marketing John! Update: John fixed his pop-up!).
In a post …
Be amazing and make up for it
Be amazing and make up for it – hire people that fill in your gaps.
Catastrophic failure? Restart.
Mistakes teach more than success.
Counterintuitive? Experimentation means being willing to make mistakes. When I am willing to be wrong, I am free to explore unlikely alternatives. Alternatives are key to solving difficult problems.
Imagine a scientist afraid to make …
Wheelbarrow: The wisdom of blinking
I’ve been reading a fabricated debate at Slate between James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, and Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink. I’ll be revising this post, I wanted to get it up while I mull …
Disciplines of innovation
At least two things are true of me. One, I love coffee. Two, I’m a fiddler. Not the musical kind, the annoying kind. Always jigging around, tapping, rattling, bouncing, swaying – annoying.
Being a big fan of experiments, I started …
abbr. resume
My name is Jeremy Heigh. I am a husband, father, son, brother, friend, reader, thinker, economist, investor, gamer, artist, writer, and young man.
I liked school and have three degrees. The last is an M.Sc. in environmental economics. I enjoy …