Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged ideas, innovation, learning, parenting on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My company just celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary. To celebrate, we invited some amazing thinkers and doers to talk about whatever they’re thinking about and doing these days. My brain is full of interesting ideas, which I’m sure will spill into the blog over time.
But today I’m thinking about one speaker in particular, Andy Hargadon. His blog [...]
Posted in Facilitation, tagged brainstorming, ideas, innovation, Parenting Wisdom on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been a tough couple of weeks with the monkeys. We’re in one of those phases where hanging out with them is sort of fun, but sort of a pain in the a** because we keep finding ourselves having to work really hard to get them to follow directions.
The other day I had to put [...]
Posted in Decision Making, tagged innovation, childcare, nanny, Obama, South Carolina primary, Clayton Christensen, innovator's dilemma on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a great article about how Obama is trying a new approach to win South Carolina. In the past, the way to win in the South has always been to use established networks and leaders, get the endorsements or preachers and politicians, and roll on to victory. In part because Hillary [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged Apple, innovation, Parenting Wisdom, transitions on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think its a shame that the Street is dinging Apple for yesterday’s news, saying that it’s too much evolution and not enough revolution.
Even highly innovative companies like Apple don’t have the bandwidth or resources to continually be pushing the boundaries of the completely new. And there’s a lot to be said for spending time [...]
