Subscribe To This Blog:
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Purpose of Conferences
Fifteen years ago, conferences were a place to do two things: meeting new people and get information that you could really only get at the conference. Today, almost all of the information can be gotten elsewhere, the only benefit is … Continue reading
Leading Is Initiating
In my experience, there are many people who assume that in order to lead, they need to know all the answers or be more experienced than the people they are leading. As a result, they are content to do the … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Leave a comment
The Benefits of Dwelling
Most ideas can be rather simply put. Cliff notes have been truncating books for ages. Book reviews often summarize a book sufficiently that you can have an intelligent sounding conversation about the ideas presented with your colleagues. Unfortunately, ideas represented in … Continue reading
Posted in Attention, Thoughts
Leave a comment
The Irrepressible Need To Correct
We all do it. Your friend says, “Can you believe that we haven’t seen Bob in 4 weeks?” Contemplating this, your brain calculates that really it’s only been 3 weeks and 5 days, so rather than simply agreeing with the … Continue reading
Posted in Attention, Thoughts
Leave a comment
A New Management Book
One of my friends and I have an ongoing joke about writing the next new management book. What we’ll do is simply rehash a mix of 4 or 5 other business books, then find anecdotal examples showing that all successful … Continue reading
The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice is an interesting book, that I think is often overlooked. The premise of the book is actually, that making choices comes with a consequence and while we wouldn’t necessarily give up any particular choice, the total … Continue reading
Scarcity and Excellence
As we continue to progress deeper into a world where things that used to be scarce (technological gadgets, entertainment sources, varieties of food products, etc), are becoming abundant, one thing that is not becoming abundant is excellence. For every iPod, … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Leave a comment
The Inertia of Uncertainty
Inertia (n) - Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change (American Heritage Dictionary) Someone once said to me, “What’s amazing about Napster is not how fast it grew, but rather how slow it grew, given the fact that it … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
3 Comments
Description Using Antithesis
In some of my reading, I have come upon a style of describing situations that I find fairly interesting.The authors use the antithesis or an anti-description as creating something that is very vivid. For example, from a recent reading: “The … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Leave a comment
Diversification Mediocrity
I just read an insightful blog entry over at GigaOM on the Impact of Diversification on humans – namely that it leads to mediocrity. In a world, where people are increasingly focus limited, we end up either honing our focus … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Thoughts
Leave a comment
RSS feed