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Why do we exist as a business?
Posted on December 12, 2011 | 3 CommentsIt’s an existential question I asked myself after reading Ben Horowitz’s blog post: Lead bullets. Fortunately I was reading Ron Baker’s book Implementing Value Pricing at the time. Ron proposes a simple, yet extremely demanding, 2 part answer: The sole reason for a business to... -
You Can’t Eat On Facebook – 3 Timeless Fundamentals from Never Eat Alone
Posted on June 15, 2011 | No CommentsYou know it’s a good book when you dog ear the last page. That’s what I did with Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. I did it for this quote: …you can’t do it alone. We are all in this together. It’s a book about the power... -
Be grateful. Life’s a Black Swan.
Posted on June 2, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the things that I’ve enjoyed most about being in business has been the exposure to new ways of thinking and a whole new genre of books. The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is a book that has definitely challenged my thinking. What is... -
Humanising – the real value of Real Time
Posted on April 29, 2011 | No Comments“Our people are our greatest asset.” “Our differentiator is our relationships.” “Product X is great but it’s our people and our culture that really makes the difference.” “Our competitors could walk into this place and look around. They can even copy everything we do, but... -
88 tips for business – Rework reworked (a reminder list)
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsRework is a string of 88 short essays by Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson – the founders of 37signals.com (we are big fans of their products Highrise, Basecamp, Campfire and Backpack at Bluewire Media). It’s a gem, so I thought I’d write a one... -
Is this the first ever example of crowd-sourcing?
Posted on November 18, 2010 | 1 CommentTwelve mighty volumes; 414,825 words defined; 1,827,306 illustrative quotations used… The total length of type – all handset, for the books were done by letterpress, still discernible in the delicately impressed feel of the inked-on paper – is 178 miles, the distance between London and... -
Heretics + Followers – Blind Sheep = Obligation
Posted on October 25, 2010 | 1 CommentTribes, by Seth Godin What’s it about? In Seth’s words: A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader and connected to an idea. This is a Small Book (about tribes) with a Big Idea: You, Me, Everyone has... -
4 key leadership learnings from “Multipliers” (by Liz Wiseman)
Posted on October 11, 2010 | 5 CommentsThe premise of Multipliers written by Liz Wiseman, is that any leader can be placed on a spectrum between being a Multiplier (good) and being a Diminisher (bad). (If you’re interested in finding out your style, try this questionnaire.) What is a Multiplier? “A leader...
