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- Useful Commute: Why Conventional Management Wisdom Is Flawed
- Many managers try to apply common wisdom to everyday challenges. Organizational management expert Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why this can lead to poor business choices. For more on Pfeffer's unconventional approach to management, see our BNET Book Brief video on his book "What Were They Thinking?" by BNET...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Learning: Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom
- I liked this, from Nivi, summarizing some of the points in the book Re-Creating the Corporation: Learning is the acquisition of data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. And what are those things? Data consists of symbols that represent objects,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Reading fads: why Tom Friedman does not compute
- I'm always on the lookout for educational trends. Over the past couple of months the usual suspects who speak at education conferences have been toting around copies of Thomas Friedman's new book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. These knuckleheads and the administrators who love...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Bidding Farewell to the Baby Boomers
- Young professionals smile at the thought of opportunities likely to open up for them as a wide swath of the workforce retires in the next decade. Conventional wisdom says companies will be hard-hit as the baby boomer generation vacates key management positions to spend more time on the fairway, but...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- The Sole Survivor - Navy SEAL Story
- The Washington Post has an amazing interview / account of a Navy SEAL who was ambushed in Afghanistan by Taliban fighters a couple years ago. He was the only member of his team to survive. It's a moving story and well worth a quiet read.As we go about our daily,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Quotes of the Day
- Three assorted quotes.The first is from Caitlin Flanagan, a wonderfully zesty writer, who takes on MySpace and online predators in the latest Atlantic Monthly subscribers only. Unlike so many failed attempts to capture this phenomenon, Flanagan opines with originality and humor.With the Internet, children are marching out intothe world every...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- slashdotted and Why the Rich Get Richer
- It started with a post by CmdrTaco on Slashdot saying: “replicant108 wrote in to give us Tom Evslins fascinating account of working for Microsoft in the early 90s.” All of a sudden traffic skyrocketed to over 100x the normal hourly volume for the Fractals of Change website....
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Useful Commute: The Wisdom of Crowds
- In this podcast, we get some tips on dealing with difficult co-workers from management consultant Susan Heathfield. We also talk to New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki about the "wisdom of crowds" -- a simple but almost counterintuitive notion that large groups of people are smarter...
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Perfecting the Pitch â€" A How to Guide
- Starting a business is like assembling giant mechanical watch in that there are hundreds of moving parts that must be timed to interact perfectly. Much like a watch has a face which is the external component that the world sees; an early stage startup has “the pitch” – the one...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- The Importance of Weak Ties
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Once Upon a Business...The Role of Storytelling in Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- The "Rich Get Richer" Effect
- Duncan Watts has a fascinating, brief piece in the NYT Magazine today about the "rich get richer" effect and how cultural mega-hits dont have much to do with many individuals independently liking a given song or book. Rather, the success of a successful book or song and the failure of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- A Central Tension in Any Entrepreneurial Venture: Marrying Your Business But Also Keeping a Safe Distance
- Continuing my riff on the role of passion in decision making, heres a central tension in any entrepreneurial venture you dont hear talked about much:It demands complete emotional committment to be successful, but youre also told not to have your self-esteem / self-worth too invested in the success or failure...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- The Role of Feelings and Emotion in Decision Making
- People love to characterize emotion and feelings as toxic to rational, objective decision making. "Be cool and dispassionate," they say. While theres some truth to that, there is also evidence to suggest that emotions are crucial in rational decision making (Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes Error, is an influential proponent...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- The Biggest Secret Knowledge in Business
- Is the stuff that ought to work, but doesnt.So says GMU economist Arnold Kling in this interesting TCS Daily article. Kling hits on something I think a lot about which is how common and repetitive the "best practices" of business are. Its hard to find original insights, even if the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Design Puzzles - Why Do Outdoor Coffee Tables Have Four Legs?
- Prof. Steven Postrel has a good post over at Organization and Markets about why some entrepreneurial opportunities go unsatisfied. His example is why outdoor coffee tables have four legs instead of three, when its "obvious" that three legs would make the table rock less. He concludes with the following design...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Apple Helps Reinvent the Content Business
- Just as surely as Apple didn’t reinvent cellular service with the introduction of the iPhone, it DID accelerate the changes taking place in the music business by the deal it announced today with EMI for the electronic distribution of music WITHOUT copy protection aka DRM or digital rights management. ...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- 4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
- Before we get too deep into this, let me clarify two things. When I say without a "plan," I mean without a formally written business plan – not that you should be clueless about what you want to do. And, when I say startup funding, I’m talking more...
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- You’re The People Whisperer
- Mary’s training a puppy. She’s taking the job very seriously and doing it well. Both of us think that we should have taken as disciplined an approach to managing people in our entrepreneurial days.The toughest thing for an entrepreneur to learn is that most people want to be led....
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Morph of a Nerd CEO â€" How Hard Will You Work?
- Nerds are used to long hours. But the long hours you spent getting a program to work are nothing like the hours you’ll have to put in if you start a company and have employees. If you’re not prepared to work twelve hours at least six days each week...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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