On a brighter note here’s a great link I found in Curt Rosengren’s blog. Curt writes:
File this one under companies who get it! In the dismal economy of 2002 independent bookstore Rainy Day Books‘ sales rose 6 percent, four times the industry average. Their secret?
“Our philosophy is that our staff comes first, then the customer,” says [co-owner Vivien] Jennings. “We feel that when you take good care of your people, they will take good care of the customers.” [Read the article here.]
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick.
No sooner do I finish my last blog than I stumble on Denham Grey’s eloquent thoughts: Wonder if you can really capture tacit knowledge by
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for
James takes a day trip to the Fourth Estate. However, it’s the interaction between blogs that makes them so interesting and influential. A single blog can be akin to a
Keith Sawyer highlights an article from Nature. It describes how a complex mathematical theorem is solved by massive collaboration hosted on a blog. Here’s a key point that Keith identifies
Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Martin’s mad manifesto “Owning a communications network is rather like being the in posession of Tolkien’s Ring. It slowly corrupts and drives mad the keeper.” (tags:
Both of these are lifted from Dave Snowden’s presentation on contextual complexity. Nasrudin found a weary falcon sitting one day on his window-sill. He had never seen a bird like
