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Category Archives: Philosophy
Design Your Community
Andrew Chen reminds us this morning to design our community along with our product. This design, as design thinking teaches, should be thoughtful and iterative. The design should not be accidental. Because accidental design is what gets us a customer … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Marketing, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged customers, design, process, thinking
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Groupthink: A Caution for Summer Planners
The classic article Groupthink was just brought to my attention via RSS feed. Most of us have heard of the 1952 article, but how many have read it recently or at all? If you’re taking part in summer strategy or … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy
Tagged budgeting, planning, strategy, thinking
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Give it Away
In the digital world, the more you: Give things away. Share your ideas. Fail. the better you will do. It’s contradictory to everything we learned in business school. But in B-school we were operating in a world of scarcity. Everything … Continue reading
Why You’ll Fail to Have a Great Career: Passion
Larry Smith, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo, tells a TED audience why they’ll fail to have a great career. It’s a funny and engaging talk. And it’s right. Professor Smith gives a number of reasons why you … Continue reading
Who Are You?
Being self aware is good for us as leaders, and it’s good for us collectively as corporations. Not every company is a Silicon Valley startup. Nor does every company have a patent wall that can deflect competition. Yet many companies … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged financials, Hong Kong, ROE
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Agile Aspirations for 2012 Inspired by Simon Sinek
A recent post from Peter Saddington on Agile Scout brought Simon Sinek to top of mind, once again. This is an inspiring way to start 2012 and worth a view. Simon’s famous quote is worth republishing here: “The goal is … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Leadership, Philosophy
Tagged agile, aspirations, Simon Sinek
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#blackoutsopa
SOPA is a lousy bill that hurts innovation, stifles creativity and allows corporations to place roadblocks in the way of the free exchange of information and ideas. Stop SOPA.
Graduate School: Where CEOs Become Stupid?
Good post from David Pogue on December 15th about what he learned while teaching a course at Columbia Business School. He was amazed at the complete lack of business understanding by the so-called best and brightest at Columbia’s B-school, one … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged CEO, MBA, organization, profitability
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The Anti-ROWE
Interesting argument to increase workplace flexibility to keep more mid-level government bureaucrats in the federal government. That’s the wrong way around. The federal government should let the hide-bound mid-level retire and move along and go ROWE. We need the best … Continue reading
Tears: A CEO’s Aspiration?
Simon Sinek published a truly meaningful article on Steve Jobs today. What made us cry for a billionaire who was very unlike the rest of us? A worthwhile read.
Posted in Career, Philosophy
Tagged apple, Simon Sinek, Steve Jobs
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