TweetSince reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell‘s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself. As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; [...]
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Outliers
December 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Non-fiction, Open source, Random, Site
Tags:deliberate practice·Gladwell·Hofstede·legacy·opportunity·outlier·Outliers·PDI·success·work
The Big Switch
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Non-fiction, Reading
TweetI finished reading Nicholas Carr‘s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software… Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas Edison [...]
Blue Ocean Strategy
January 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Content management, Ideas, Non-fiction
TweetBefore the end of 2007, I finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and then I promptly forgot to blog my thoughts (i.e. beyond this). Cirque du Soleil is the leading example of a business successfully applying blue ocean strategy to break away from the pack and [...]
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The Myths of Innovation
December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Ideas, Inspiration, Non-fiction, Reading
Tweet Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation is a refreshingly unpretentious read–one that I accomplished straightaway in an afternoon (off). Here are my takeaways–all quotes are Scott’s unless explicitly noted otherwise: Innovation as an accumulation of smaller insights…connecting pieces…realizing picture (puzzle); therefore, take action to enable insights to occur more freely. Work passionately and take [...]
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Reach beyond existing demand
December 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Content management, Inspiration, Non-fiction
TweetI just finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and it’s caused me to reevaluate the potential impact of ideas as related to content, its management and the value derived from both. While I will post more specific thoughts on Blue Ocean Strategy shortly, I thought it [...]
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