Posts tagged “lessons”
Crystalline integrity
Integrity is fragile, critical and expensive.
Haute coutre, universal appeal
It’s only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Now
What changes if all we intend to give, is given now, instead of the future?
Coaches for CEOs
Goalies only stopped being twitchy when they started getting coached. Who helps quirky CEOs?
What you stand for and what it means for your business
How lessons learnt twenty years ago are changing the business I am a part of today.
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.
Up on a soapbox
When do we get to play? Why does brilliance need an excuse?
How to be introspective
Introversion isn’t bad, it just has consequences.
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 Todd at …
People first. Marketers … later.
I’ve hit a snag with the Foundation Series. It reads like crap.
I’m still wobbly on what I ought to say so I default to obfuscation. Orwell said it best, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” I’m …
Swear as necessary
[All technical words italicized for easy skimming]
I’m no plumber but I like to pretend sometimes. In our new house the tub’s hot water tap leaks (leaked, past tense began 3 minutes ago). And feigning competency I decided to solve …
The present future of conversations
Kottke writes:
“… can we have a discussion about where technology and user experience on the web are headed without using any of the following words or concepts:
Ajax, web services, weblogs, Google, del.icio.us, Flickr, folksonomy, tags, hacks, podcasting,
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Viral experiment
More on viral marketing:
The rules: Create a new site and launch it on May 19, and build the most traffic or get the most Technorati links by June 9 — with no paid advertising.
The lessons:
- the idea …
Forgetting to remember
I love used bookstores; the messier the better. The owner can’t possibly know the value of all the books when they’re piled willy-nilly around the joint. I feel like a thief, pawing through the dark corners, earnestly listening for the …
Shifting gears
I used to plant trees in the summer to put myself through university. It’s tough work but it pays well.
Tree planting is one of those few jobs that are so hard, so miserable, and so deeply testing that those …
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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Business book list for entrepreneurs
An aggregated, curated list of business books.
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 …
Acquire, bond, learn and defend
From the book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria:
Lawrence and Nohria spin together lessons from biology and social sciences to describe a theory of human nature. The lessons they highlight …
Stories
Cluetrain Manifesto, David Weinburger:
“We don’t need more information. We don’t need better information. We don’t need automatically filtered and summarized information. We need understanding. We desperately want to understand what’s going on in our business, in our
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Info triple play
I watched this video clip a few minutes ago and immediately decided it is important. It just isn’t clear why.
Here’s where I’m at so far:
This guy, James Jones, has made a triple play on valuable of information.
Nailing …
Be instead of do.
I followed the crowd of slavering Hugh fans to Creating Passionate Users cause, you know, I want to be cool too.
Blind enthusiasm is being replaced by a healthy criticism of Hugh’s, and now Kathy’s, arguments. Headlines like “The …
Eat right, eat less, and exercise more.
The principles of successful diets applied to successful business.
Party like a rockstar
When I was in university I used to love swinging by this guy’s site: Analog Cereal. He was on this quest to “party like a rock star”. I’ve never wanted to be a rock star – but the party …