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