No one ever pitches their new product idea by saying “this is going to take time, hard work, and a willingness to adjust our plan as we experiment and learn more about this market”. It’s just not sexy! Today on Seth Godin’s blog, he advocates the pursuit of overnight failures! He says that: “The challenge… Read More
Heath Row posted a great idea on the Fast Company blog yesterday. He was looking at Getty Images and highlighted their -”10 Ways — how 10 different approaches to photography can change how you look at images”. He suggested that we review these 10 ways and try to see how they might apply to what… Read More
The other day BrainBasedBusiness author Ellen Weber brought up a great topic in her post “Is Knowledge Power at Your Workplace”. “I am often surprised”, she said, “at how facts are used merely to support old ideas we held”. No wonder most organizations have difficulty innovating! Innovation requires learning. Learning requires you to suspend your… Read More
Seth Godin will be doing a seminar in New York with an audience of 60. It may not be a tiny whiteboard seminar – but it’s good enough for me! My check is in the mail (REALLY)!!! I am so excited. Who wants to go with me???? Technorati tags: Business, Seth Godin, Seminar… Read More
After writing about stories, and seeing a description of Seth Godin’s “tiny white board seminar”, I had an idea: Could a professional conference be more effective if it were constructed as a series of stories created by small groups? Imagine this. Instead of sitting in a room with someone behind a podium referring to… Read More
Here’s what Adam had to say about working with me today (HE wrote this!): Hi, I am Adam. I am in 6th grade, and go to Springfield Middle School. Today was take your child to work day, so I stayed home with my mom since she works at home. I had a fun experience at… Read More
A couple of weeks ago in a posting on Tom Peters’ blog (look in March archives for the entry “Refine to Simplicity”, March 10th), Steve Yastrow proposed that customers are: Anyone whose actions affect your results In an information creation and management organization, how differently would you treat content providers (authors) if you considered them… Read More