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Innovation with Business Dating
Today around midday, Ron DuPlain (Twitter: @rduplain) asked me if I wanted to catch lunch with him and Michael Davis (Twitter: @yellowfish_md). Only thing is, I don’t know Michael Davis. Don’t worry, Ron said, he’s a cool and interesting guy and you’ll probably find out you have a lot of business and professional interests in…
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Pain Based Change Management
Andrew Grove’s political commentary today in the Washington Post (“Mr. President, Time to Rein in the Chaos”) was interesting to me not because of the opinions presented, but because of his unorthodox suggestion: successful change management can emerge when leaders deliberately allow pain, then rescue the masses once the pain has become too unbearable: I…
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Systems Thinking Predicts Economic Collapse in 21st Century
According to some researchers, it’s the end of the world as we know it – sometime this century, in fact. Economists and policy researchers have actually envisioned it coming for about three centuries, though. The most recent tap on this subject came on March 7, 2009, when journalist and Hot, Flat, and Crowded author Thomas…
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Warren Buffett on Simulation & Modeling
John Hunter shared some excerpts from Warren Buffett’s 2009 Letter to Shareholders. I particularly liked this one part where he reflects on the outcomes of economic modeling and forecasting: Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend…
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How Quality Makes You Recession-Proof
A couple days ago, Sonia Simone presented an article entitled “Four Old-School Reasons Why You Can Thrive in this Recession”. The general philosophy of her insights is straightforward: It’s impossible to really see massive change when we’re still in the middle of it. But there are a handful of things you can bank on. One…
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The Quality and Innovation Attitude
Ryan Adams (@RyanSAdams; Blog) tweeted about another blog post this morning entitled “Looking for Yes” by Seth Godin. Ryan suggested that perhaps this is the reason, as described by Godin, that Obama got elected: I don’t think it should matter whether or not you’re trying to make a profit. If you’re out to provide a…
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Quality, Continuous Improvement, and the Expert Mind
Are you an expert? According to tradition and research, it takes 10,000 hours of focused effort and a dedication to continuous improvement to become one. On October 2, 2007, Bill Harrison described the phenomenon well: I’ve been immersed in a fascinating book called This Is Your Brain On Music. The author, Daniel J. Levitin, is…
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