March 2012
38 posts
Overthrow Yourself - Umair Haque - Harvard... →
“Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, is one such listener. He believes...”
– The executive’s guide to better listening (via matthewhayles)
“A team is a small group with a leader (leadership can and does shift among the...”
– Look Beyond the Team: It’s About the Network - Jon R. Katzenbach - Harvard Business Review
Bicycling: How I Learned to Ride a Straight Line |... →
WatchIf I must die, let it be riding.
Very inspiring story - no excuses. Ride your bike (or do whatever you love)
(via If we must die, let it be riding.)
“A healthy product company is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a...”
– Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
“Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort. It will lead you to your...”
– Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort « blog maverick
“Could Jobs or Knight have been as successful or even more so by being a bit more...”
– Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership - David Aaker - Harvard Business Review
“Yes, the marketing world and the business world continue to change. Rapidly, in...”
– Why Are Marketers Hating on Traditional Marketing? | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog
“product-focused success depended on exploiting capabilities — in branding,...”
– Amazon vs. Apple: Competing Ecosystem Strategies - Ron Adner - Harvard Business Review
“Top talent leave an organization when they’re badly managed and the organization...”
– Why Top Talent Leaves: Top 10 Reasons Boiled Down to 1 - Forbes
“To keep good people, employers need to take a bit of a risk on them by giving...”
– Bring Back the Organization Man - Peter Cappelli - Harvard Business Review
“his one problem stat. But that problem will end, because Jeremy Lin is a...”
– Doc Searls Weblog · Why Jeremy Lin will be fine
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
— Seneca”
– swissmiss | This:
Is SXSW Getting too Large? Video with Leo Laporte... →
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– swissmiss | Great Things
“Let’s get all of their issues on the table. Let’s then convene privately and...”
– Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
“bucketheads – they pretend to understand businesses like this but have a total...”
– Don’t Be Gunshy Because You Dealt With Bucketheads The Last Time Around
“Resist the urge to change your marketing every month. Don’t change your look,...”
– Great brands are boring | Andy Sernovitz | Damn, I Wish I’d Thought of That!
“Change your language. Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not...”
– swissmiss | Change your language.
“This is social marketing. Passionate people are co-creating because they value...”
– Why Social Marketing Is So Hard - Nilofer Merchant - Harvard Business Review
“Man, give it five minutes.” I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it’s...”
– Give it five minutes - (37signals)
“we ignore all the cases where two PhDs from Stanford try to start a company and...”
– How sheep-like behavior breeds innovation in Silicon Valley | Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
“They can not only “borrow your watch to tell you the time,” but can also cow you...”
– Undercurrent – Digital Strategy And Recommendations From 22 Year Olds
“It’s not about the network. It’s about the content. More than ever, brands need...”
– “Pinterest Marketing” cartoon | Tom Fishburne: Marketoonist
A List Apart: Articles: Audiences, Outcomes, and... →
Really well done Framework - going to use this in my work today!
“Words carry risks we cannot assess accurately because we do not know what...”
– When Words Fail - Charalambos Vlachoutsicos - Harvard Business Review
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x... →
True for other teams as well, not just development teams.
“Faced with this, the bank’s leaders began to ask “why” again....”
– Change Your Employees’ Minds, Change Your Business - Scott Keller and Kaleen Love - Harvard Business Review
“A great Board pushes the CEO and the company to make the most of the...”
– A VC: The Board Of Directors: Role and Responsibilities
Business Idea Evaluation with The Product... →
“And if they think that makes you an asshole, that’s their loss. And when you are...”
– Poke People In The Eye With Truth And Then Give Them A Hug
“My deep-rooted fear of becoming irrelevant is based on decades of watching those...”
– Rands In Repose: A Precious Hour
“Against the context of what worked at the time for animated movies, these were...”
– Could Pixar’s ‘Secret Story Guidelines’ Work for Your Team? - Eric Hellweg - Harvard Business Review 