Kent Anderson reviewed Jaron Lanier's book over on the Scholarly Kitchen: I started Jaron Lanier’s recent book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” skeptical of his initial opinions. His complaints about standardization and today’s limiting philosophy of information technology didn’t impress me at first — after all, we had to embrace standards around electricity, electromagnetic spectrum… Read More
Steven M.R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust, was the opening keynote speaker today at the SIIA Content Forum in San Francisco. Covey believes “trust is a hard edged economic driver because it always addresses speed and cost.” When trust decreases, speed decreases, and costs rise. Covey also believes that trust is a key… Read More
“Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has “cursed” us.” I’ve started reading Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath. According to the Heath’s, there are six principles that, if followed, greatly increase the chances our ideas will catch on. The… Read More
Back in July I wrote about The Radical Leap, by Steve Farber. Yesterday I (finally) read the sequel, The Radical Edge. Liz Strauss covered my favorite concept in the book, finding your frequency, but there is so much more. There’s the Radical Edge defined “achieving simultaneous fulfillment of three of life’s seemingly incompatible spheres…your business,… Read More
Today in Shelf Awareness, a daily newsletter about the book trade: “Danny Meyer, legendary restaurateur and owner of Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern and other eateries in New York City and author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business, was asked to define hospitality in a recent USA Today interview: "Service… Read More
Hugh MacLoed hits the nail on the head: “As the Job-For-Life no longer exists, as the value of the social "position" erodes and the value of the "project" takes its place, personal brand development becomes far more important to one’s career.” Whether you work for a large corporation, a small business, or you’re out on… Read More
The last three of Robert Sutton’s Weird Ideas That Work tell us to ignore sources that most people consider “good” counsel: customers, critics, financial experts, people that have solved our problem before, and our own past successes. There is a time and place to test new ideas and listen to these sources (see Weird Idea… Read More
As we continue to review Robert Sutton’s weird ideas, we need to consider what to do after you get the right people and build the right environment to encourage innovation. How do you know which ideas will lead to successful new products? You don’t. But, weird ideas seven and eight will give you… Read More