Machine. Ecosystem. (1)
Here are two useful ways to view your organisation: as machine, and as ecosystem. A machine is usually a complicated system: lots of moving parts,… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (1)
Stuart Patience
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on scoring and missing
Sometimes people overlook… important statistics. My basketball hero, Wilt Chamberlain, who retired 56 years ago, still holds 72 NBA records, several of which are considered… Read More »Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on scoring and missing
Systems: complicated and complex – Aaron Dignan
The engine inside a car is complicated. A complicated system is a causal system – meaning that it is subject to cause and effect. Although… Read More »Systems: complicated and complex – Aaron Dignan
Fellow travellers: Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman on mentors
Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman have had a great series of conversations on Brian’s The Moment podcast. Here’s a little something on the subject of… Read More »Fellow travellers: Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman on mentors
Other hard starts
Loads of things are hard to start: Running doesn’t start feeling good until you’ve done it quite a lot Same goes for swimming Learning to… Read More »Other hard starts
Starting is the hard part
I’ve been making a mini Lego-alike model from Wisehawk: It’s tiny, fiddly fun. The instructions are clear, and it’s not rocket science… apart from at… Read More »Starting is the hard part
Courtesy and cold fusion
One yardstick of wealth is how much you give away. It’s easy to run out of time and money, but there are no hard limits… Read More »Courtesy and cold fusion
Drucker on abandonment
Effective executives know that they have to get many things done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate. And the first rule for the concentration of executive efforts… Read More »Drucker on abandonment
Double time
There is never enough time. There are theories about why we’re so bad at predicting how long things will take: the planning fallacy, Brooke’s law… Read More »Double time
Dropping catches
In Moneyball Michael Lewis describes how baseball manager Billy Beane – following the work of sabermetrician Bill James – used statistics to upturn perceptions about… Read More »Dropping catches