4 Posts found for Author: Scott Berkun

Good processes include a process for changing or eliminating the process. Because projects and teams are changing all the time, a process that is useful or necessary one month may not be useful or necessary the next month. Never assume that a process will go on forever, and avoid defining jobs around processes for this reason.

Content: Quotation | Author: Scott Berkun | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Process

I wrote the popular book The Myths of Innovation to capture everything I wish I learned about big ideas before I started my career. I’ve seen bloggers summarize the book into a simple list (or cheezy video), but here’s a version written by my own hand.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Berkun | Subject: Innovation

The term Myths of Innovation has become popular on the web, but few of these articles link to each other, which is sad. Much like the abuse of the term innovation itself, the meaning stretches further all the time.

And somehow in all this innovation abuse we’ve forgotten inventions like web searches, links and footnotes to credit what others have done.

As a response I’ve compiled a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Scott Berkun | Subject: Innovation

Here’s a list of ways you can help so-called business gurus see their bullshit. You can help them recognize when they’ve gone too far and have drunk their own Kool-Aid.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Berkun | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Miscellaneous