Posts Tagged excellence

If You Play the Numbers Game, You Will Always Lose When Trying to Change the World

Why do we focus so much on attendance numbers when trying to make change?  The truth is that numbers can deceive us and give us a false sense of prog

Community

3 Comments

Creativity, Kryptonite to Complexity and Key to the Future

IBM recently released a study on rising complexity in organizations and cited that "creativity" is the key leadership trait that was allowing companie

Creativity

1 Comment

What is the Motivation of Making Gangplank Free?

A common question is "How does Gangplank work?  Why is everything free?".  The common theory is that if you don't charge people something they won't

Creativity, Productivity

1 Comment

SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Seth is back. He really gets it right on this one. This is an excellent

Creativity, Sunday Book Review

Comments Off

Sunday Review: Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself by Alan Alda

Take Away: Great words of wisdom. I grew up watching MASH and always liked Alda, but I had no idea how brilliant he really is, well worth the read.

Sunday Book Review

Comments Off

Get Deliberate

@tdhurst posted on "It never gets easier".  A good post that had one of those triggers: Work Smarter, Not Harder.   Oddly, @evo_terra had posted so

Personal, Productivity

1 Comment

Sunday Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I'm reading. Rather than go with some complex rating

Sunday Book Review

Comments Off

Sunday Review: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I'm reading. Rather than go with some complex rating

Agile, Sunday Book Review

Comments Off

Sunday Review: Practices of an Agile Develoeper by Andy Hunt

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I'm reading. Rather than go with some complex rating

Agile, Productivity, Sunday Book Review

Comments Off

The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona

Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona's Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness.  It refere

AZ, Gangplank

2 Comments