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When institutions fail, the normal business response is to stay away. Looked at another way, however, the institutional void may be an opportunity.

Content: Related Content | Authors: Ignasi Martí, Johanna Mair, Kate Ganly | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Miscellaneous

A society whose practices are premised only on economic growth is going to self-destruct, because materialism, if left unchecked, destroys the best aspects of being human and brings out our baser qualities.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

The basis of trust may be changing. It used to be based on reciprocity and as such was fragile and personal. Because of technology, trust is now based on reputation among people who don’t know each. It is both less personal and more robust.

Content: Article | Author: Philip Evans | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Part of the visual-literacy.org site, which focuses on the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations. Here you’ll find a catalog of useful methods of displaying information. Just mouse over a method for an example. The map is color coded to cover the following categories:
– Data … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: visual-literacy.org | Subject: Miscellaneous

PowerPoint recently (and quietly) celebrated its 20th birthday. Why do some people love it while others passionately hate it?

And how can we learn from its strength and its limitations, to be better and more effective communicators?

Content: Article | Author: Abhay Padgaonkar | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Marc Andreessen summarizes some research by Dean Simonton on age and creativity across many fields.

Content: Article | Author: Marc Andreessen | Source: Pmarca | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

For more than 100 years, Writers’ Workshops have offered writers deep and generous insights into their own work: insights that have helped them improve, and often inspired them to take their work in exciting new directions. Recently, technical, scientific, and business professionals have also discovered the immense value of the Writers’ Workshop format in solving their creative problems. Now, an experienced leader and participant shows … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Richard P. Gabriel | Subjects: Innovation, Miscellaneous

There is no such thing as a “space”.

There is such a thing as a market — that’s a group of people who will directly or indirectly pay money for something.

There is such a thing as a product — that’s an offering of a new kind of good or service that is brought to a market.

There is such a thing as a company — that’s an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Pmarca | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

Marc Andreessen takes a look at luck and the entrepreneur, focusing on the work of Dr. James Austin, who developed a theory of four kinds of luck (chance).

Content: Article | Author: Marc Andreessen | Source: Pmarca | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

The Winter 2007 issue of Rotman magazine contains 124 pages of varying quality articles and other information. I personally recommend reading the following:
– Peripheral Vision: An Interview with George Day
– Drivers of Economic Growth by Robert Ayres
– Time for Design by Jeanne Liedtka and Henry Mintzberg
– The Big Picture: Howard Gardner (The Five Minds of the Future)
– Neuroeconomics by … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

Seth Godin blogs about whether business books work or are they an utter waste of time.

Editor’s Note: the blog post itself is fine, but if the topic interests you will will find quite a number of related trackback posts to further your reading…

Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Subjects: Education, Miscellaneous

Marc Andreessen summarizes and provides a copy of a 2007 paper in the Financial Analysts Journal by Tom Arnold, John Earl, and David North:

“Headlines from featured stories in Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes were collected for a 20-year period to determine whether positive stories are associated with superior future performance and negative stories are associated with inferior future performance for the featured company. “Superior” and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marc Andreessen | Source: Pmarca | Subjects: Finance, Miscellaneous

Some self-help groups save lives, and some just drift apart. What makes a personal network click?

Content: Article | Author: Virginia Postrel | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

The Fall 2006 issue of Rotman magazine contains 120 pages of varying quality articles and other information. I personally recommend reading the following:
– Identity and the Economics of Organizations by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton
– Loyalty Myths by Timothy Keiningham,Terry Vavra, Lerzan Aksoy and Henri Wallard
– The Big Picture:Tom Stewart
– The Trust Development Process by Mark Weber, Deepak Malhotra and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

How has business been represented in English literature? The question is important because novelists are prominent among the ‘intellectuals’ whom Hayek regarded as the gatekeepers of ideas. They are thus influential in determining the view which people form of business.

In this volume, five authors – experts in different periods of English literature – have produced original surveys of how business has been portrayed by novelists, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Arthur Pollard | Subject: Miscellaneous

How the “halo effect” distorts our view of company performance.

Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Miscellaneous

Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. Now, you can view many of these talks online.

Content: Online Resource | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People

Ben Casnocha has created a public wiki designed to track useful rules of thumb in business.

Editor’s Note: I haven’t spent much time on the site, but it appears to be more a collection of interesting quotes than actual rules of thumb – not necessarily a bad thing but…

Content: Online Resource | Author: Ben Casnocha | Subject: Miscellaneous

In the 1950s, the Edward R. Murrow-hosted radio program This I Believe prompted Americans to briefly explain their most cherished beliefs, be they religious or purely pragmatic. Since the program’s 2005 renaissance as a weekly NPR segment, Allison (the host) and Gediman (the executive producer) have collected some of the best essays from This I Believe then and now. “Your personal credo” is what Allison … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Dan Gediman, Jay Allison, John Gregory, Viki Merrick | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development