Earl Nightingale was a hugely successful self-help guru in the 1950s and 1960s. His recording The Strangest Secret sold over 1 million copies. That video, in 3 parts, may be found on YouTube.
Nightingale’s Strangest Secret is that “you become what you think about.” In the videos Nightingale lays out his notion of how most of [...]
The blog Innovation Weblog cited Gary Hamel’s book The Future of Management a few months ago, and I’ve meant to share it’s key points on impediments to innovation. Here they are along with my interpretations:
Creative apartheid–The long-held notion that creativity is a gift few have and that creative things should, and perhaps can only come [...]
A lot my after-hours life is centered on baseball this time of year, so allow me to look for a strong lesson for the business world from my favorite sport.
Baseball today is much the same game that was played over 100 years ago. It has deeply-rooted conventions and established ways of doing things. [link] And [...]
Don’t blink! Malcolm Gladwell’s insightful book Blink on what he calls “rapid cognition” is not wrong, just easily misinterpreted. It would seem to tell people to go with their first “gut” response to something.
But your first response to new information, an issue, or an idea may be too limited, too narrow, and incomplete. The problem [...]
While at home the other morning, I walked by my 9-year-old’s microscope left on the kitchen counter. Normally, clutter and forgotten belongings plague me at home, but I had the thought, what kind of Dad would tell his curious son, “put your damn microscope away!”? Wouldn’t that be like Louis Armstrong’s Mom saying “stop playing [...]
Too often we work hard to discover something new, and then grab hold and refuse to let go of it. In exploring the future, you might latch onto a big emerging trend or a new technology. But the world doesn’t “arrive” at a new place and stay there. The future is always in the future, [...]
