07 Oct
My 10-year-old is learning about the US Government and Constitution. Last night, I helped him review the three branches of government, the roles of each, and so on. For a young boy, it’s about a system that leads and protects us. As far as he knows, the right people are there, doing the right things. [...]
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30 Sep
The economic crisis is disrupting the big systems we depend on, and we have a long way to go before most of us can be reassured about how things will turn out. The market crisis is rooted in badly warped and out-of-control financial systems, but we are also at a moment of potential transformational change [...]
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10 Jun
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 [...]
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04 Jun
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 [...]
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19 Feb
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, [...]
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