rules for positive deviance
Tim Kastelle Atul Gawande ends his latest book Better with a set of rules for positive deviance.…
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business ecosystems
One topic that is guaranteed to get my classes fired up is Apple. They’re great…
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Jeff Veen paraphrases Picasso with ‘Good designers copy, great designers steal’. Since innovation is in…
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Recently I’ve been running into a bunch of things that say what I want to…
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. -Jacob Bronowski via the…
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Do things always get better as they evolve? I touched on this idea recently, and…
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Here’s a video from the people that made the iPhone app Convert, showing all of…
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Atul Gawande from his most recent book, Better: The third requirement for success is ingenuity…
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I read Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette last year, and I thought it…
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One of the key ideas in the business models research is that once a firm…
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That’s me wearing my new iPod headphones. Strangely, I caught a fair bit of stick…
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has written an interesting post summarising research by Boris Groysberg of Harvard (found…
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