Open Strategist
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Links
· Smith & Wesson Presents: America's Obsession With Guns - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LFOBPZ
· Rare Vintage Pictures Of Superstars Hanging Out Together http://bit.ly/LFOuDZ
· Ann Curry Leaves the Today Show - Dealing With a Demotion - At Work - WSJ http://bit.ly/LFNgc0
· Industries Profiting From Obesity - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LFEbjd
· INCREDIBLE | Your E-Book Is Reading You http://bit.ly/Lkb6qT #BIGDATA
· Bad Karma: Can Yoga and Capitalism Get Along? - Lifestyle - GOOD http://bit.ly/LkaYaZ
· Why Geniuses Are 'Quietly Brilliant' - Business Insider http://bit.ly/Q5Kuge
· The Life Of Michael Lewis - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LgSOa8
· The 15 WORST Sounds In The World - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LgSNCX
· Top 10 Women's Tennis Players Grunts - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LBSy8q
· Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network http://bit.ly/LiWwQo
Thursday, June 28, 2012
[chart]Strategy vs. Execution
One of my favorite topics to discuss has always been strategy and execution. I’m not surprised that we talk and strategize too much in current times, but execute very little since books seem to mentioning strategy a lot more these days.
Here’s a google Ngram chart which searches for words through books over time. So, are you ‘strategizing’ or ‘executing’?
Via: Ngram
All that glisters is not gold
All that glitters is not gold is actually – “All that glisters is not gold” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7.
If Shakespeare was still alive, he would be very upset with this typical corruption. But this begs the question whether such corruptions are necessarily a bad thing?
When things change or get ‘corrupted’ to something else or go ‘viral’ after, it actually makes it a good thing instead. But no one can predict which corruptions are actually useful, and which are not.
The only thing certain in life are death and taxes, and all else requires taking risks. So I’ll leave it up to you to ‘corrupt or not’.
-Prashant Khorana
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Links
- BBC News - Blade Runner: Which predictions have come true? http://bit.ly/LlfZnZ
- The 15 Maps That Explain The World In 2012 - Business Insider http://bit.ly/L9XXAO
- Survey reveals almost half of men would rather give up their sex life than lose their … http://bit.ly/LutjEK
- The First Weight-Loss Drug In 13 Years Has Been Approved http://bit.ly/LgSojT
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Links
· 17 Facts You Need To Know About Smoking In The 21st Century - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LvZ0h0
· DEAR NEW YORK TIMES: Eric Schmidt As CEO? Are You Nuts? Do You Even Know What Business You're In? - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LeBwZq
· IKEA to enter India, invest 1.5 bln euros in stores - Business News - IBNLive http://bit.ly/PWruRd
· Intermission: Forties Era British Film Shows Where Bicycles Are Born - Lifestyle - GOOD http://bit.ly/L8Bns6
Monday, June 25, 2012
FW: The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Feed: HBR.org
Posted on: Monday, June 25, 2012 11:04 AM
Author: Jason Sylva
Subject: The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is among America's greatest business leaders. He transformed industries, changed society, and altered how companies do business. After his best-selling biography of Jobs came out, author Walter Isaacson saw many commentators focus on Jobs' personality — without understanding how he led. Listen as Isaacson and Harvard Business Review Editor Adi Ignatius talk about the keys to Jobs' success, and the lessons that leaders of any organization can use in their own work. |
Conundrum of Hipsters
Over a recent conversation with a friend, the topic of hipsters came up. Actually, it started because we were passing by a Hipster town in Toronto and it made us wonder why do hipsters do things they do, and why don't others follow suit?
Well, if you take sunglasses as an example, I don't know about you, but I usually stick with a classic pair of black aviators most days, and would never wear anything else to work. But instead, yesterday I was sporting my yellow framed pair, and well, I was a hipster. But if I was following suit with the hipsters, it made me wonder if everyone followed suit in the same way, it eventually wouldn't be hipster anymore. Instead, the hipsters would flip to the standard pair of blacks, which at that point, won't be standard anymore.
Another example would be the launch of the gaming console Wii. When Wii entered the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation dominated market, it made a hipster move. It went head on against Microsoft and Playstation with a console which was completely different and offered a unique experience, and eventually went on to become the most popular console of the year.
Leaders must realize that in competitive business markets, they must find ways to set themselves apart from everyone else. They must learn to bring new things to the markets where no one else competes, and unlearn them when everyone else catches up, therefore, be a true hipster.
So is your organization hipster enough?
Well, if you take sunglasses as an example, I don't know about you, but I usually stick with a classic pair of black aviators most days, and would never wear anything else to work. But instead, yesterday I was sporting my yellow framed pair, and well, I was a hipster. But if I was following suit with the hipsters, it made me wonder if everyone followed suit in the same way, it eventually wouldn't be hipster anymore. Instead, the hipsters would flip to the standard pair of blacks, which at that point, won't be standard anymore.
Another example would be the launch of the gaming console Wii. When Wii entered the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation dominated market, it made a hipster move. It went head on against Microsoft and Playstation with a console which was completely different and offered a unique experience, and eventually went on to become the most popular console of the year.
Leaders must realize that in competitive business markets, they must find ways to set themselves apart from everyone else. They must learn to bring new things to the markets where no one else competes, and unlearn them when everyone else catches up, therefore, be a true hipster.
So is your organization hipster enough?
FW: Where does trust come from?
Feed: Seth's Blog
Posted on: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:39 AM
Author: Seth Godin
Subject: Where does trust come from?
Hint: it never comes from the good times and from the easy projects. We trust people because they showed up when it wasn't convenient, because they told the truth when it was easier to lie and because they kept a promise when they could have gotten away with breaking it. Every tough time and every pressured project is another opportunity to earn the trust of someone you care about. |
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Links
Who will be Microsoft’s Tim Cook? | asymco http://bit.ly/LeX8v1
Who Is Jeff Gundlach - Business Insider http://bit.ly/L0P907
The Cost Of Dementia - Business Insider http://bit.ly/L1rkoP
LaVorgna: America's Debt Levels Are Falling To Pre-Crisis Levels - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LoFoLO
Jim Solomon From Wall Street To Fireplace Restaurant - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LpF9jw
DEAR NEW YORK TIMES: Eric Schmidt As CEO? Are You Nuts? Do You Even Know What Business You're In? - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LeBwZq
Pen and Pencil Dilemma
I was always a visual information taker and learned more from attending class and lectures than from reading myself. But when reading a book, I usually
carry a pen, pencil or marker of some sort. Now I’m not referring to text books, which I never read anyways, but about fiction, business and other non-fiction books.
When I was marking my book the
other day, I wondered how my choice of instrument(I usually use a pen)
represented my personality.
There were moments when I would
tell myself that I shouldn't be marking my books with pens, markers(I don’t
use markers cause I usually find their brightness distracting), but then I thought again, is anyone else going
to look at my book when I lend it to them and say-‘this guy must be untidy, he
couldn’t even keep his books clean’ or perhaps – ‘look at this guys inability
to draw straight lines under text’ or even maybe on the flipside –‘seems like
he takes his books seriously’.
Our instruments define our personalities, but its how others see it is what makes it interesting, and those different perspectives matter.
So, what's your instrument?
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Links
- In Praise of Leisure - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/LbD1xx
- Number of the Week: The Marriage Penalty - Real Time Economics - WSJ http://bit.ly/L4Nt5N
- Seth's Blog: Where does trust come from? http://bit.ly/Loo6Ab
- The Long Wait for Donated Organs (Scaling) http://bit.ly/LpVgh5
- B-Schools That Churn Out Consultants | Poets and Quants http://bit.ly/L4f1bk
- Intermission: A Turing Tribute, in LEGOs - Culture - GOOD http://bit.ly/L4evdv
- Asians Top of the Immigration Class http://bit.ly/LhueKL
- U.S. complaint data puts spotlight on Capital One | Reuters http://bit.ly/LhwGRs
- 10 Brands That Will Disappear In 2013 - Business Insider http://bit.ly/PCvHtd
- I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. | Blog – Hooktheory http://bit.ly/Kzs58e
Friday, June 22, 2012
Links
- The Seven Transferable Lessons of Luxury: What Prestige Brands Can Teach Private Wealth Managers | Enterprising Invest…http://bit.ly/L1AykP
- People Are Awesome: Meet the Book Tank, a 'Weapon of Mass Instruction' - Culture - GOOD http://bit.ly/IS00YK
- RINSER TOOTHBRUSH http://bit.ly/L1zIo8
- Biggest Wall Street Intern Mistakes - Business Insider http://bit.ly/PoFraj
- That+awkward+moment+when+Hitler+has+stolen+your+seat.jpg (500×606) http://bit.ly/LdSrRW
- Jeff Gundlach: Investment Cubism - Business Insider http://bit.ly/L0Pcc6
- Lonely Hedge Fund Bullish on Greece Tries to Woo Investors - Bloomberg http://bit.ly/KZ4NZV
Here's the awesome Canadian Lynx
via: Wiki
which way?
Every experience counts, makes a difference, regardless of if it’s at the workplace, at home or in society. Today I’m here to tell you that all you have to do is live and not just exist. Most people just exist; they go to work, hoping that the day will come to an end, they go home and sit on the couch and hope that their relationships with their spouse, parents, kids, extended family will keep them occupied. Monotony plagues them, and the only difference between today and tomorrow is passing time itself. The path they are on is complacency, and which path to take after that, they don’t know.
But which paths to take isn’t what everyone should be concerned with. When you’re lost, any direction is the right one. All you have to do take a step, make a move in any direction. Most people will stop right there and think-‘What if that’s the wrong path to take?’ To that I say, any experience in life, good or bad is still better than complacency.
Stop existing, start living. A path less understood is still better than not walking at all.
-Prashant Khorana
Thursday, June 21, 2012
TOP 10 TED Videos
1. Ken Robinson on schools killing creativity - viewed nearly 11 million times
2. Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight - viewed 8.7 million times
3. Pranav Mistry on sixth sense technology - viewed 8.3 million times
4. Steve Jobs on how to live before you die - viewed 8.2 million times
5. David Gallow shows underwater astonishments - viewed 7.4 million times
6. Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense - viewed 6.4 million times
7. Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action - viewed 5.7 million times
8. Brene Brown on the power of vulnerability - viewed 5.1 million times
9. Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic" - viewed 4.2 million times
10. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen - viewed 4.1 million times
Viewing figures as of 20 June 2012 on TED website
Links
· What Makes Jeff Bezos Tick? A $42 Million Clock, for Starters http://bit.ly/Pg97pS
· Open Strategist: Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Ever... http://bit.ly/LdPm4v
· Dating and Diet: Can a Meat Eater and a Vegan Be Happy Together? - Lifestyle - GOOD http://bit.ly/PojAzR
· What Rising Gas Prices Mean for the Obesity Epidemic - Lifestyle - GOOD http://bit.ly/LdQyop
· The Life Of Meredith Whitney - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LjEbHq
· Astronaut Ron Garan Reveals Details Of Space Mission - Business Insider http://bit.ly/PCxlLo
· U.S. Olympics Swimmer Ryan Lochte Prepares For 2012 Summer Olympics With Strongman Training Regiment - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LjDe1V
· Do Blondes Have More Fun? Research Reveals Which Of The Old Sayings Are True - Business Insider http://bit.ly/PBpYUv
· Big, Beautiful Photos Of The Hawaiian Island Larry Ellison Just Bought - Business Insider http://bit.ly/Lj9C4G
· 25 Reasons Why Canada Rocks (PHOTOS) http://bit.ly/PAoSbz
· GDP since Jesus http://bit.ly/PAjHZ6
· Health - Hans Villarica - Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/LfFvLm
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Links
- Health Effects Of Caffeine [Infographic] http://bit.ly/PfFXXV
- Business - Derek Thompson - The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/PkeCUL#in
- "Until then, remember: Greed is good, but good is better"
- HANDBALL: The Breakneck Sport You Have To Watch During The Olympics - Business Insider http://bit.ly/PvrCqH
- New Behind-The-Scenes Photos From Inside Obama's White House - Business Insider http://bit.ly/LgO1da
- Chobani Spawned the Greek-Yogurt Craze, Starting With One Small New York Factory http://bit.ly/Pw6655
FW: A lesson from a great architect
Feed: Seth's Blog
Posted on: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:04 AM
Author: Seth Godin
Subject: A lesson from a great architect
Architecture is a combination of sculpture and art and engineering and user interface. It is high tech and low tech at the same time, utilitarian and beautiful and virtually always budget constrained. But do you know what great architects understand? If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter. Great architects are able to be great because they know how to sell their ideas to their clients. (Or, they know how to find clients who will build their ideas. Same thing.) If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant. |
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
links
The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs | @andrewchen bit.ly/P7RDfo
A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm - Design - GOOD bit.ly/JARyz0
10 Facts About The Crazy Drug Linked To Cannibal Attacks - Business Insider bit.ly/P7ogK0
[video]Coca-Cola, "The Perfectionist" on Vimeo bit.ly/IFuZeq
Kissing Ruined My Life Altucher Confidential bit.ly/Mg4wQp
I Didn’t Want to Be a Father Altucher Confidential bit.ly/P4xW86
Joshua M. Brown: The 25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media bit.ly/PfFYLt
Technology - Megan Garber - This Desk Will Be Disappointed If You Don't Draw All Over It - The Atlantic bit.ly/LaJnNR
Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere
Old thinking: Take existing products created for rich customers in developed markets and scale them down for emerging markets. New thinking: First develop innovative solutions that work for customers in poorer emerging markets, and then apply those innovations globally. Listen as Vijay Govindarajan discusses how reverse innovation is transforming the way leading companies are thinking about innovation and product development. View webinar: A conversation with Vijay Govindarajan. |
via: HBR(View article...)
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