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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... -
Reinventing Education (More Opposite Thinking)
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsConsider your schooling for a minute. What if you had lectures for home work and exercises for class time? What if you could have spent more one on one time with your teacher to help you really grasp the details of concepts, and help you... -
Opposite thinking
Posted on June 6, 2011 | 8 CommentsLook hard at how your industry works now. Then see what might happen if you do the opposite. If you were looking at the web design industry, the exercise might start [and I mean start - you could definitely get much more hard core than... -
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...
