Why So Negative? Can’t You Be Positive?
A product or service exists to solve a problem. That’s a negative. Can you still sell a product if there’s no problem to solve?
Learning
What I’ve Read Lately: APE: How to Publish a Book
Should You Write a Book? “In this sea of choices, why should anyone give a shiitake about your book?”
Right from the start, APE digs in and delivers. What you need to know. Why. And how to get it done. A quick review of Guy Kawasaki’s latest book.
What I’ve Read Lately: Connecting Organizational Silos
ESN. It’s yet another new acronym you need to learn: Enterprise Social Network. Here, JT provides his review of this book.
The short take: It’s a must-read for your corporate ESN team. It strikes a nice balance and is the first book he’s read that can almost act as ‘primer’ for the entire process.
When Two Unyielding Forces Collide
The crux of the problem is where the two cross. If we are no longer effectively listening, and, we are certain we are right (actively avoiding being wrong), we have lost the ability to…learn.
We stop learning, stop being able to overcome adversity, because we are no longer ale to recognize that perhaps, just perhaps, we are wrong, that we need to change.
Sticking to Your Knitting is Not Competitive
As we’re all aware, in today’s world simply sticking to your knitting is tantamount to a slow fall backward. Sticking to your knitting, may be viewed as staying the course and following a prescribed strategy. Yet I think ‘sticking to your knitting’ is in the process of being, well, redefined.
As I read through a number of articles and commentary this week, all coincidental in their timing, the notion of strategic development through experimentation came across loud and clear. …and it’s not just single-point success.