Note to Self… Meetings

June 20, 2008

Somewhere, deep inside, I knew there was a reason why I loathed most meetings. Now I know why.  The more meetings, the less trust.

Note to Self… HBR on Innovation at Google

April 23, 2008

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Google's success with innovation is due to a combination of traits. Some, like their ownership of the search and online advertising categories, can't be readily emulated. Other operational and cultural traits can be emulated (I wonder how many CEOs who read HBR will actually try).

Build platforms that scale so you can move from [...]

Where Would You Rather Work? II

March 25, 2008

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Where Would You Rather Work? And Why?

March 25, 2008

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Note to Self… OLPC, My Starbucks Idea, NASA, Edison, Archimedes

March 24, 2008

Yves Béhar of Fuseproject pulls a 2008 Brit Insurance Design Award for his rugged, low-power laptop design for the One Laptop per Child project. I saw the laptop during a session at SXSW (pictures below). It (and the purpose it serves) rocks!
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Starbucks got into crowdsourcing (share/vote/discuss/see) with My [...]

Note to Self… The Word “Coworking”

March 15, 2008

It's a statement about the way we process information that something as simple as a single word can give shape to a loosely coordinated set of characteristics in a population.
The international activity around coworking excites me. I need about three months and plane tickets and I could really get a deep, meaningful handle on [...]

Note to Self… Bangkok, On the Luck of Seven, In Good Company, Seed, and Swag

March 3, 2008

John Berns put together a BarCamp in Bangkok. Now he's musing on a coworking space or a Jelly in Bangkok. His post captures the vision and the spirit of coworking with an honest candor that makes me recall my first introduction to the idea. I sent him an e-mail in hope of watching this [...]

Note to Self… Intuit, Poland, Hedonism, Beauty

February 16, 2008

Intuit released their third installment in a series titled "Vision of Small Business in 2017". The first two installments, authored by the Institute of the Future, are "The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs" and "The Connected World of Entrepreneurs". The latest installment is "The New Entrepreneurial Economy". The report starts with the phrase [...]

Note to Self… The Dirty Battle

February 15, 2008

At last year's Design Managment Institute's Annual European Design Conference in Copenhagen, frog design founder Hartmut Esslinger gave a talk that beautifully articulates the role that design thinking can (and from our perspective should) play in business and society. The abstract from his talk (entitled 'The Dirty Battle') says it all:
"Design and Business still [...]

Note to Self… NotAnMBA Studio?

February 14, 2008

Innovation doesn't just happen. Despite popular myth, innovation rarely results from light bulbs going off over the heads of isolated individuals. Rather, it is most often collaborative. Consider the IDEO Way, which consists of five basic steps

Observation

Brainstorming

Rapid Prototyping

Refining

Implementation

Each step requires teams of people collaborating. Likewise, check out the design methodology at [...]