Liz Strauss offers up another of her provocative challenges; to craft 25 words of advice on social media. Here’s my 25 words: Social media wisdom, like all wisdom, comes from experience. Engaged, mindful, reflective experience. Deliberate and intentional practice will yield wisdom. Other experience need not apply. The picture is of my coxswain son and [...]
Tagged Liz Strauss, Social media[cross posted at FASTforward blog] Back in late May I got an email from Renee Callahan who edits Strategy and Innovation asking if I wanted to be part of a "blogger’s virtual book tour" for Scott Anthony’s soon to be released book, The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. Who could resist? Especially [...]
Tagged Christensen, Innosight, InnovationThe Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, Anthony, Scott D. The Silver Lining is positioned as a case for the strategic value of innovation in economic downturns. It evolves into a reflection on the role of constraints in innovation and on the possibility of successful innovation within large, complex, organizations. Scott Anthony, the [...]
Tagged Innovation, StrategyI have got to meet danah boyd in real life one of these days. Her work, as revealed through her blogging, shows what can happen when you drop a well-trained, smart, and articulate observer into new environments. We all learn from her sharp attention to what is really going on. So much better than listening [...]
The Social Customer Manifesto: Study: Unselfish Individuals Benefit in Social Networks Many executives reject the notions of social media because they rely on very naïve characterizations of likely individual behavior. This study points to some interesting data on why these naïve characterizations are misleading and what real behavior looks like. (tags: fpa-2009-07-07 socialmedia) Beth's Blog: [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of curiosity. Wanting to know how things work or what’s around the next corner is fundamental to being human. I’ve come across two video clips that illustrate the power of this far better than I can. The first is a clip by the late Nobel prize winning physicist [...]
Tagged Bassler, curiosity, Feynman, TEDYouTube – Feynman – Part 1 of 6 This is the start of a NOVA special about the life and thinking of Richard Feynman. A fascinating mind worth studying. The best example I know of of where the relentless pursuit of simple curiosity can take you. (tags: Feynman video thinking)
I found this wonderful piece from the late Isaac Asimov in Dan Ariely’s excellent Predictably Irrational blog. Here is what Asimov had to say about believing in data… "Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? – in ancient astronauts? – in the Bermuda triangle? – in life after [...]
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