Monday, July 27, 2009

A Good Question Always Beats A Good Answer

Some questions we need to be asking ourselves:

1. Why are we doing this in the first place?

2. What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you up at night?

3. How can I capture the world's imagination?

4. What are you working on today?



From the Book Rules of Thumb by Alan M. Weber

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Rules of Thumb

This passage in the book made me buy it:

Rule #7
The System is the Solution

It's the first discipline in Peter Senge's great book on creating change, The Fifth Discipline.

It's deeply embedded in almost all of Michael Porter's work on strategy.

And it's the kind of thinking you'll need to learn if you want to compete and win in the new world of work.

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A quote from the book:

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law: all the rest is commentary." -Talmud, Shabbat 31A.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Nudge

N -centives
U -nderstand mapping
D -efaults
G -ive feedback
E -xpect error

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

JK Rowling Quote

How would you like to be remembered?

"As someone who did the best she could for the talent she had"

-JK Rowling