A weak tie for me is an email-only or phone-only relationship with someone. The weak ties in your network are important and underrated. Virginia Postrel, in this Forbes article on networks, reminds us that people usually find jobs not through their close friends but through their weak ties. Excerpt:To...
The Silicon Valley Junto -- an intellectual discussion society that Chris and I run -- met a few weeks ago around the topic Once Upon a Business...The Role of Storytelling in Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship.David Cowan kicked it off with an oral telling of a story he recounted on his...
Dick "da wizard" Costolo, CEO of FeedBurner, has a great post up contrasting two schools of thought around hiring:Briefly, the "No False Positives" school of hiring says that bad hires are worse than no hire because bad employees infect the company with all sorts of issues. Better to march on...
A friend mentioned Herzbergs theory of motivation to me today. Herzberg says there are two kinds of motivational concerns: true motivators and hygiene factors:Herzberg (1959) constructed a two-dimensional paradigm of factors affecting peoples attitudes about work. He concluded that such factors as company policy, supervision, interpersonal relations, working conditions,...
Ross Douthat writes an excellent, wise blog called The American Scene, a right-leaning take on politics and culture.Ross reminds us that education is not everything; it certainly is not the cure-all for our economic anxieties people like to make it out to be. As Ross notes, its a sexy line:...
Geoffrey Moore, author of the pathbreaking and essential business book Crossing the Chasm, just blogged about the Davos 07 theme "The Shifting Power Equation." Moore says:The shift from computing to communications also has profound implications for the redistribution of power. As the Internet continues to work its transformation of the...
Geoffrey Moore, author of the pathbreaking and essential business book Crossing the Chasm, just blogged about the Davos '07 theme "The Shifting Power Equation." Moore says:The shift from computing to communications also has profound implications for the redistribution of power. As the Internet continues to work its transformation of the...
