Month: May 2016
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Redefining Leadership in the Digital Age
When I did the research late last year for the Econsultancy report on Effective Leadership in the Digital Age, one of the (many) interesting things to come out of it was the emphasis placed by the interviewees on the value of softer […]
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Strategy and Tactic Trees
Apart from companies that express or communicate their strategy poorly, or those that conflate a varied set of goals or targets with a coherent strategy (as Richard Rumelt said in Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: 'Goals are not strategy. Goals are wishes. Strategies […]
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The Lifecycle of a Technology
'Invention is a lot like surfing; you have to catch the wave at the right time.' Ray Kurzweil Digging into Kurzweil's 'S-curves' a bit more I came across his lifecycle of a technology (or invention). Kurzweil noted back in 2004 that the […]
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The Agile Team Onion
I really liked Emily Webber's thoughts about Agile team onions. I've talked a lot over the past few years about the power of small multi-disciplinary teams to drive big change, and retain agility as you scale – and concepts like Amazon's two-pizza […]
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – The Winner
There was a good showing for Rory Sutherland in this month's vote but a strong run of votes for Ramzi Yakob's post on how Business Strategy is Simple, Doing it is Hard meant that he won through in the end. So well done Ramzi […]
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Bots and Humans: The New Interactive Tools That Could Help Creatives by Russell Davies The Best is The Last by Ben Evans In The Future We Will Photograph Everything and Look […]
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – Nominations
I'm a little late with this (mostly due to being away cycling up and down big hills in Sardinia) but it is time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a short starting list below but please do […]