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
Iteration
Vision. Positioning. Execution. (1)
You see the traffic, approach the road, pause at the kerb, lean forward just as someone passes to get some forward motion, then step into… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (1)
Strategy: from ideas to value propositions to business models
Ideas are easy. Ideas are free, they’re everywhere. The hard thing is turning ideas into value propositions that customers want, and business models that can… Read More »Strategy: from ideas to value propositions to business models
Stability: Burke and incremental change
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change
In their hands
Make something people can use. Put it in their hands. See what happens. If they’re eager to pay – attention, time, money – you’re onto… Read More »In their hands
What it takes: a body of work
What does it take to develop as a writer, artist, filmmaker, activist, programmer, blogger, teacher, chef, athlete, landscape gardener, leader and manager, academic? Whatever else… Read More »What it takes: a body of work
Build, measure, learn
This post is a leap from Rule 2 of bootstrapping the non-profit: Do it Now. This is such a key idea, and so interesting and… Read More »Build, measure, learn
Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 2: Do it Now
This is the second in a series applying Seth Godin’s rules of bootstrapping (see also here) to building a non-profit organisation. Rule 2: Do it Now Do it now. Not… Read More »Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 2: Do it Now
The meat is on the street
John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard movement of churches, wasn’t renowned as a systematic religious teacher. Apparently people would ask him “John, when are you… Read More »The meat is on the street
A crappy bridge
I didn’t manage to photograph the bridge, but I’ll post one of a similar bridge next time I see one. It was a pretty sorry… Read More »A crappy bridge