Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, MacLeod, Hugh Maybe all business authors should be encouraged to start their writing careers doodling on the back of business cards. Wouldn’t we all be better off if more of us invested in distilling our messages as crisply as Hugh MacLeod does here. MacLeod started drawing on [...]
Also taggedOne of the defining characteristics of Enterprise 2.0 implementation efforts according to Andy McAfee, among others, is the presence of emergent behaviors in the organization as participants interact with and adapt to new technology functions and features. The notion of ‘emergent behavior’ is pretty well established in the study of complex systems. Yet it still [...]
Also tagged DesignToday makes eight years I’ve been posting here. This is one component in a continually evolving collection of tools and practices that constitute my work practices. I’ve been thinking about how best to understand that constellation of tools and practices and about ways to make the path smoother for those who may be earlier in [...]
Also taggedRules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self, Webber, Alan M. Alan Webber was the managing editor of the Harvard Business Review and, wearing an entrepreneurial hat, was a cofounder of Fast Company magazine. He’s hung out with and paid attention to lots of smart people and he’s managed to [...]
Also taggedI’ve been uncomfortable with the ongoing discussions about the promise or threat of multitasking without being quite able to articulate why. Stowe Boyd finally helped my crystallize my concerns with a nice dissection of the most recent wave of debate on the topic. Let me extract two paragraphs from his excellent analysis: So, the war [...]
Also tagged multitaskingI had never actually heard the story about Van Halen and brown M&M’s before I came across this Boing Boing entry. Of course, Boing Boing is always a good for fun stories. Here’s one that also has a useful point about dealing with complex knowledge problems between organizations. Spotted via Andrew Baron’s tweetstream, this [...]
Also tagged knowledge sharingI’ve been part of the private beta of Gist for the last several months and am still wrapping my head around it. They’ve just opened up the beta for wide consumption. Here’s the announcement from CEO T.A. McCann. Today, Gist brings you a better way to communicate and build stronger business relationships. After a year [...]
Also tagged Gist, Gist.comTech Support Cheat Sheet Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT There’s a striking amount of wisdom and good advice packed into this flowchart. It’s not about the body of knowledge stored away in your head. It’s about a robust strategy for generating and testing ideas that are likely to be productive. What puzzles [...]
Also taggedPaula Thornton, my friend and co-blogger at FASTforward, tweeted the following this morning which reminded me of a little constrained exercise I did back in February. That exercise started with this tweet and a blog post that generated some fun discussion. What I didn’t do was publish the final list of C-words that were ultimately [...]
Also tagged[cross-posted at Fast Forward blog] Recently, I sat through a presentation about a Sharepoint-based intranet project to improve processes within the HR group of a medium-sized organization. The process in question was one of collecting annual performance reviews throughout the organization. Using Sharepoint, the HR group and their consultants replaced Word documents, spreadsheets, and email [...]
Also tagged Drucker, productivity, Taylor
