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Visions Provide the Energizing Context to Reach Our Goals

Goals need to be energized and focused by the larger context of exciting visions. These paint us into the big picture and draw us forward to the future of our dreams.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Miscellaneous

Grow Up, Dad

Context magazine asked a 10-year-old correspondent to write about his thoughts on computers.

Editor’s note: This was done back in 1998 and has very little practical business value but is a good read just the same.

Content: Article | Author: Brett Andrews | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Business 2.0 presents its third annual send-up of the most ill-conceived, embarrassing, and downright appalling developments of the past year.

Editor’s Note: Though I doubt there is much to learn from this article (and shame on you if you can) it is still fun reading…

Content: Article | Author: Mark Athitakis | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Miscellaneous

The Deviant’s Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets

Consultants (and “futurists”) Mathews and Wacker present a book about cashing in on weird ideas. Defining deviance as “something or someone operating in a defined measure away from the norm,” the authors examine the transformation that takes fringe ideas-such as jazz, holistic medicine, and even personal computing-into mass markets. They use examples such as Virgin mogul Richard Branson (whom they call a “poster boy” for … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Ryan Mathews, Watts Wacker | Subject: Miscellaneous

Ten Secrets for Using PowerPoint Effectively

You can take many courses on how to use PowerPoint from a technical standpoint. Here are ten secrets that will help you move from being technically proficient to using PowerPoint to improve the effectiveness of your presentations.

Content: Article | Author: Dave Paradi | Subject: Miscellaneous

Measurement Traps

Measuring performance can cut both ways. It can play a valuable role in improving organizations – or it can stand in the way of necessary change.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: General, Miscellaneous

Lessons from the Ant Farm

Looking for efficient solutions to tough problems? Forget corporate case studies. Embrace the offbeat.

Content: Article | Author: Catherine Fredman | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Miscellaneous

Finding the Geek Within

The 20 tech-savviest business schools. 49 straight-to-the-point executive-ed courses. 25 books, gurus, conferences, journals, and corporate training programs that get it — and will make sure that you do too.

Content: Article | Authors: Deirdre Lanning, Stephanie Clifford | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Linked: The New Science of Networks

How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási and he’ll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but understandable relationships. Linked: The New Science of Networks is his bright, accessible guide to the fundamentals underlying neurology, epidemiology, Internet traffic, and many other fields united by complexity.

Barabási’s gift for concrete, non-mathematical explanations and penchant for … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Albert-László Barabási | Subject: Miscellaneous

Jim Collins

..you don’t search for an idea. You search for questions. Every single major piece of work I have been involved with came because some great student asked me a question that I could only stare at and say, “that’s a great question. I will have to get back to you.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Opportunity