Month: January 2019
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Post of the Month – December 2018 – The Winner
I'm a little late with this due to a heavy work schedule (sorry) but I can formally announce that the winner of Post of the Month is Gareth Price's post on the personalisation problem. We had some good voting around Noah Brier's excellent thinking around Marketing and the Tension Between Contrarianism and Tradition but in…
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Post of the Month – December 2018 – Nominations
If you can think back as far as 2018 it's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. So please do look back at your bookmarks and nominate any good posts that you read and that you think are worthy of being in the vote. As usual I have a short starting list below…
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Valuing Curiosity in Business
'Curiosity fundamentally conflicts with the scalable efficiency model that dominates virtually all of our institutions – we anticipate a big shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning driven by a changing economic environment' John Hagel Curiosity is one of those qualities in business that most of us recognise as having value yet few businesses actually…
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Bureaucracy
“Bureaucracy is a massive, role-playing game. If you’re an advanced player, you know how to deflect blame, defend turf, manage up, hoard resources, trade favors, negotiate targets and avoid scrutiny. Those who excel at the game, unsurprisingly, are unenthusiastic about changing it.” Source Via Nicole Yershon