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5 Steps to Achieving Great Things
If you want to achieve really big things. The kinds of things that people believe to be difficult, improbable or even impossible. It will require passion, purpose, planning and the ability to execute actions. To accomplish them you [...]
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 progress. Let me give you an example.
Recently and event was held [...]
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 companies to stand out. It is what CEO’s find most valuable.
Despite this realization we still have an educational [...]
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 see any value in it. Maybe if they are working on an assembly line, but [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
Tagged creative class, creatives, excellence, incentives, motivation, theory
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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 book to pair with Richard Florida’s Reset. The world and they [...]
Posted in Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, discipline, economic development, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, reading
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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.
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged alan alda, commencement speeches, Education, excellence, mash, motivation, reading, wisdom
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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 something similar the other day on twitter. I hear this all the time at work as [...]
Posted in Personal, Productivity
Tagged deliberate, excellence, hardwork, motivation, practice, theory
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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 system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged excellence, gut feeling, instinct, intuition, motivation, theory
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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 system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Agile, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Agile, excellence, extreme programming, gtd, motivation, pair programming, Productivity, programming, theory, xp
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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 system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Agile, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Agile, excellence, motivation, pair programming, planning, Productivity, reading
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