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
EMC Innovation Conference – day 2b
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, Ideas, Inspiration, Technology
TweetContinuing from the first half of my day two notes… Steve Santini (internal EMC link), CTO, Bank of America Securities spoke next as the day’s featured guest speaker. Steve shared his perspective on how how Bank of America (BofA), as a very large company, organizes itself for successful innovation; the bank’s vision for the future [...]
EMC Innovation Conference – day 2a
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, Ideas, Inspiration, Technology
TweetContinuing from the good start on day 1 (10/21/2008), the second and final day of the conference (10/22/2008) began with a world tour of EMC’s Centers of Excellence in China, India, Russia and Ireland. It was great to see a large remote gathering at each site via live video feed. The leadership of each center [...]
EMC Innovation Conference – day 1
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, Ideas, Inspiration, Technology
TweetFirst of all, I echo what Mark posted about the refreshment that comes from talking with people face-to-face that I typically communicate with less personally (e.g. IM, email, wiki, blog, etc.). Being at the conference in person also allowed me to meet several folks for the first time. Right before lunch, I spent some time [...]
Does ‘seam carving’ generalize?
August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Reading
Tweet During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about [...]
Tags:content reuse·ECM·seam carving
