Category: insight
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future
The next Google Firestarters event is happening next week on Tues 15th at 6.15pm, at Google HQ in London. We're theming the event around 'Designing for the Future', and considering how we design for a world filled with sensors, connected devices, wearables and embedded internet. The only thing we can say for sure is that…
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Solving the Big Problems
"When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused…It’s pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years. I think it’s probably pretty easy to do it in 20 years. I think our whole system is setup in a way that makes it difficult for leaders of really big…
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With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility
I got back from holiday yesterday in time to witness the kerfuffle about Facebook's psychological newsfeed experiment (HT to this Quartz piece for the title to this post) which was a timely reminder of the sensitivities around the power that reach and data enable. The reality of-course is that most people have no idea about…
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Agile Strategy
In The End of Competitive Advantage Rita Gunther McGrath says that strategy is stuck. I confess to not having read the book yet (which I will put right), but I did see a talk recently by Grahame Broadbelt which helpfully summarised some key points and from which I’ve repurposed the graphic below which I rather liked.…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week I spoke at Econsultancy's Future of Digital Marketing conference about Fraggl – you can see the slides here. And here are my favourite Fraggl links from this week: Another good set of slides from John Willshire on his theme of Making Things People Want. And here's Tim Leake with an interesting take on client/agency relationships and…
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Making Stuff Happen
"An unshared, negative reality is delusional. A shared, negative reality is disastrous. An unshared, positive reality is short-lived. A shared, positive reality is genius." Shawn Anchor, 'Before Happiness'. HT
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Complexity and Simplicity
Taken from the most excellent Possible Health culture code (HT @Undercurrent)
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Foolish, Famous or Frozen
I often think that the balance between thinking and doing is so critical and yet is one we often get wrong. Too much of a focus on doing and we don't leave enough time for reflection, learning and application (like the reflection time that Joel at Pinterest talked about). Conversely over-thinking everything can lead to…
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Spotify Engineering Culture
Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1 from Spotify Training & Development on Vimeo. I'm giving a talk at Learnfest today which has already proved to be a refreshingly different and fascinating conference (more on that later). Tamas Mihalovits, the Global Training Manager at Spotify (who ran one of the sessions here) told me about this…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An exceptional and very moving talk from writer Andrew Solomon (above) on how the worst moments in our lives make us who we are An antidote to the hype around the so-called 'sharing economy': The case against sharing “It turns out the Internet, like every other technology, doesn’t trend toward good or…