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Today’s Post is About Speed
March 5, 2008
Today’s post is about speed.
Many things in life should be done slowly—to maximize each moment… Enjoying a glass of wine, creating a piece of art, making love, playing with the kids…
But if you’re trying to solve a problem today, speed is what separates the leaders from the followers. There was a cover on an [...]
Designing the Perfect (Anti)Venom
February 22, 2008
(The Butcher) Earlier today we rolled out Version 0.00001 of our business learning platform (our Not A B-School). We posted the outline of a curriculum and some initial readings. Our bias and editorial slant is clear in the initial post, and the 4 content areas we have chosen to focus on—Finance, Marketing/Strategy, Design, and Sustainability—are [...]
From the Field…
February 20, 2008
Overheard… From the field…
Chris, our software is dying. It is like a hound that has been fitted with rabbit ears so it could hear some specific thing. An elephants trunk added for a reason that nobody remembers but we cannot remove because the trunk infra-structure now keeps the head attached. One leg has been chopped [...]
Give and Take
February 15, 2008
It’s a pretty good deal, really. Put one piece of information out there; get three pieces of information back. That’s the value in a network when the strength of the connections between nodes is weighted by common interest.
@dydimustk, I don’t know who you are but you found our blog. Now I’ve found [...]
Google and WTF-Moments
February 2, 2008
Google is the engine of many entertaining WTF-moments. Take these two from the logs today.
Matrix Management
Matrix Management has been around since the 70s. If you search for “matrix management” on Google, the Wikipedia entry comes first (of course) and our definition comes up 39th (out of 85,000 or so results). In retrospect, [...]