In the frame / boxing clever
We always live with constraints: A bad boss (perhaps the world’s worst); A stifling bureaucracy; A chaotic lack of structure; Incompetent managers; Bungling colleagues; Crippling… Read More »In the frame / boxing clever
Vision
A strategy of usefulness
Be 1) as useful as you can be,* 2) as often as you can be,** 3) to the people you want to be of use… Read More »A strategy of usefulness
Eliezer Yudkowsky on the planning fallacy
The planning fallacy is that people think they can plan, ha ha. A clue to the underlying problem with the planning algorithm was uncovered by… Read More »Eliezer Yudkowsky on the planning fallacy
The Prize vs The Work
These things are prizes: Large amounts of money; Prestige; Medals and awards of all shapes and sizes; Universal recognition and adoration. It’s easy to focus… Read More »The Prize vs The Work
Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (3): special places to work
Fifth, the companies also had what struck me as unusually intimate workplaces. They were, in effect, functional little societies that strove to address a broad… Read More »Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (3): special places to work
Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (2): key relationships
Third, each company had an extraordinarily intimate relationship with the local city, town or county in which it did business – a relationship that went… Read More »Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (2): key relationships
Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (1): defining success, choosing a path
First, I could see that, unlike most entrepreneurs, their founders and leaders had recognized the full range of choices they had about the type of… Read More »Bo Burlingham on Small Giants (1): defining success, choosing a path
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
Gordon Brown: All for one
An ideology of “everyone for himself” will not work when the health of each of us depends so unavoidably on the health of all of… Read More »Gordon Brown: All for one
Where do I start?
If you’re trying to work out your next step for your career or organisation, you could do worse than thinking about these things: