Tom Peters: “What Diversity Problem?”
This is Tom Peters on Diversity in 1994’s The Pursuit of Wow!: Diversity problem? Hurdle? Diversity creates one and only one thing: opportunity. Business, in… Read More »Tom Peters: “What Diversity Problem?”
Books and Recommendations
Clare Leaver and Lant Pritchett on Pay for Performance for teachers (and how to think about interventions in general)
Even if you’re not interested in pay for performance, this article is is fantastic in the way that it sets a clear foundation for discussion… Read More »Clare Leaver and Lant Pritchett on Pay for Performance for teachers (and how to think about interventions in general)
Resource: Seth Godin on Business Models
I think of the business model as the enabling “wrapper” around the “technical” solution you make happen. If you’re a plumber, it’s all the business… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Business Models
A project
The thing that I’m recommending for a lot of people now is to find a sphere of activity, no matter how small or how local,… Read More »A project
Bear hunt
We can rarely go around – or over, or under – the big, difficult things. If we could they wouldn’t be big or difficult. The… Read More »Bear hunt
Voices
This is true all the time, but it’s more relevant than ever in months like the one we’re having, and probably for several months ahead:… Read More »Voices
Crossing the street: Seth Godin on monopolies
Every successful business has a monopoly—a monopoly on what it makes that someone else can’t make the way they make it. That leaves out commodity… Read More »Crossing the street: Seth Godin on monopolies
Building systems, questioning statistics, finding things out, decline and fall
Four interesting, tangentially-related things worth checking out: Wired article by Adam Rogers on how Singapore built a system that was ready to respond to Covid-19;… Read More »Building systems, questioning statistics, finding things out, decline and fall
Resource: Steve Blank on the startup journey
“How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event” (blog post and podcast by Steve Blank, embedded below) is a fantastic resource for understanding… Read More »Resource: Steve Blank on the startup journey
Bill Gates’ onion
This is a nice illustration of a set of nested problems (a.k.a. “The Onion“) in development from Bill and Melinda Gates’ philanthropic work. Often –… Read More »Bill Gates’ onion