Category: change
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Self-Generated Opportunity
When I wrote about tweetable career advice, Andy left a comment suggesting one: "Don't look for the job you want. Create it." Sage advice. Because in spite of all the doom and gloom around I still believe that there is amazing potential for self-generated opportunity out there. I've been reading The Element by Sir Ken…
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Doing By Not Doing
Unfortunately I didn't get to go to this years Google Zeitgeist event a few weeks back, but I know a man that did and he came back raving about the final session of the first day – a talk by reknowned Isreali conductor Itay Talgam. Having now seen it, I can see why. Itay uses…
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The Economics Of Ideals
I've long been a fan of Umair Haque's writing. He's never been afraid to ask the big questions, challenge the big assumptions, propose the radical. This 6 minute interview conducted by Dennis Howlett sums up Umair's approach to the 'economics of ideals': "What ideals force us to do is to confront the issue of outcomes.…
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Detached
I want to direct you to a post from Paul which I think is an important one. Paul references the large cloud of uncertainty and doubt that is with many people right now, causing them to question things that they might have been doing for years. Whatever happens now, the economic situation we find ourselves…
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Blunt
Email is such a blunt tool. According to Microsoft, 97% of all emails sent over the net are unwanted. Postini (a division of Google) puts it at 94%. Blunt. Value creation between people comes from conversing. Email is rubbish at conversation. Blunt. Value creation in business is increasingly about collaboration. Email is rubbish at collaboration.…