Links and jots of Quinn – web & search marketing and more
Sawyer starts off the book with a few characteristics of creative teams:
Innovation emerges over time
Successful collaborative teams practice deep listening
Team members build on their collaborators’ ideas
The meaning of an idea becomes clear over time
Reframing the problem or solving a different problem
Recognizing that innovation is inefficient
Innovation emerges from the bottom up
Innovate on Purpose: Book Review: Group [...]
One thing that business, institutions, governments and key individuals will have to realize is spiders and starfish may look alike, but starfish have a miraculous quality to them. Cut off the leg of a spider, and you have a seven-legged creature on your hands; cut off its head and you have a dead spider. But [...]
As we have waded thru open source CMS issues – I’d have to agree. Incremental improvements yes. Break-throughs, No.
The open source model is certainly capable of incremental innovation. Linux has many features that weren’t in Unix 20 years ago, and it’s improved on many of the features that were originally in Unix. Firefox has some [...]
This is a great set of ideas:
1. Recocgnise one
2. Avoid being one
3. Dealing with one
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/10/you_have_to_lov.html
Even better, it should be applied to partners and clients as well:
This is a principle that I was told about early in my career as “Never do business with an Asshole,” and which we have since adopted. We’ve applied it to [...]
Another book to add to the Hot List. Less is more. More choice leads to more stress. The optimal way to manage choice is evaluate make a decision, and be happy with it!
Schwartz relates the ideas of psychologist Herbert Simon from the 1950s to the psychological stress which faces most consumers today. He notes some [...]
Add to the hot books list:
According to Dweck, individuals can be placed on a continuum according to their implicit views of where ability comes from. Some believe their success is based on innate ability; these are said to have a “fixed” theory of intelligence. Others, who believe their success is based on hard work and [...]
I was recommending some books to a friend yesterday, and found myself re-visiting the effect of Zero Tolerance in The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell), compared to the economic theories in Freakonomics (Steven Levitt). A quick re-visit to Gladwell’s blog offerered this explanation:
Freakonomics is a book about deeply rooted influences on behavior, because it’s a book [...]
The Big Switch to web-based services. A profound book: www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/
Nick suggests that these changes are not voluntary so much as economic and societal in nature. The waste inherent in single-purpose servers and personal computers stems more from the conflict between two Intel executives: Moore’s Law that indicates an extremely fast rate of improvement in processing [...]
The Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition…The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.
Nick Carr reckons that the Internet is affecting how [...]