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I’ve been reading Nilofer Merchant‘s book on the #SOCIALERA. The main point is that “Traditional Strategy” is dead. For example, one shift is that organizations can’t behave like 800 lbs. gorillas who use a single driving strategy to dominate a given space – and then expect to hold their place in the market for decades.
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When I was a kid I would sometimes get concerned about doing the right thing in some really mundane situations. “Mom, can I go to a friend’s house?” “Yes.” “But should I?” “…?” I’ve been learning about decision fatigue. Basically, in some matters, making a decision is more valuable than which decision you make. If
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Seth Godin put it this way: Doing the best I can …is actually not the same as, “doing everything I can.” When we tell people we’re doing the best we can, we’re actually saying, “I’m doing the best I’m comfortable doing.” As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable. And then there’s this from
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Last fall I took suggestions for topics to dive into. One of the ideas was “Beauty vs. Ugly.” I decided to take it on and pretty quickly knew at least two people I wanted to talk to because of their perspectives. This is part 1 of 2. It’s an interview with Dan Denardo about looking just a
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Be unlikely (you already are).
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From what I can tell, it doesn’t matter which ride gets set up first for the local carnival. It’s not going to be in action until the whole thing is ready. However, when I see a Ferris wheel, what does that signal? It signifies that there is more, that the whole experience is going
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At summer camp, one of the cabins had a wasp problem. Nope, no fun. When I got there to check on it, it was easy to see that these wasps were not just outside, but had made nests inside the walls. And it scared some campers. These wasps looked dangerous with their yellow and black
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There’s a tension in the work we create. On one hand there is the need to test, fail fast, ship, respond. On the other is the bigger picture of what this is all building toward. Pressfield’s The War of Art wasn’t an immediate hit. But it was about the long game and it has continued to gain
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It’s easy to get caught up in the technique of process, the mystique of the imagined world of writing, the nebulous ether of what it might mean to thrash in the creative space. Instead, I like this really simple approach by Chris Brogan in Owner’s Mastery Foundation Group #232: You want to write a book?
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I don’t always read warning labels, but when I do they occasionally make me chuckle. Like this one that was on a Tiki torch: This product… may contain chemicals KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA to cause… I’m not quite sure how that works. Why does California have this special knowledge that is unknown in
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