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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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Political Bites: Cubs Spring Training Subsidy
What do you think of Mesa’s decision to fund the Chicago Cubs’ spring training facilities?
Apparently Mesa failed to do it’s homework. Lake Forest College studied 30 cities over 30 years and found that 27 experienced no significant impact from new [...]
Posted in AZ, Political Bites
Tagged arizona, cubs, economic development, incentives, mesa, planning, spring training, stadium
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Sunday Review: Good To Great by Jim Collins
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, incentives, innovation, motivation, Productivity, theory
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Sunday Book Review: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Too clinical of a writing style made it hard to stay engaged, but content [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, discipline, excellence, incentives, influence, motivation, reading
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Sunday Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Building Teams and Leading them is very simple, but very difficult. Reminds me [...]
Posted in Agile, Personal, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, dysFUNctional, excellence, incentives, leadership, motivation, politics, Productivity, reading, teams, teamwork, theory
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Importing Manufacturing.. Boon or Bust?
The largest Chinese manufacturer of solar panels, Suntech Power, has announced that it is opening a manufacturing plant here in Metro Phoenix. This is fabulous news. I think. It is hard to tell what it really means. What we know [...]
Mesa and Detroit.. The Next Movie Meccas?
Mesa city council recently approved a rezoning of 55 acres at Hawes and Germann roads for Gateway Studios. Of course, it is convenient that Arizona has a significantly sized movie infrastructure tax credit. If you ask me this whole thing [...]
Posted in Personal
Tagged arizona, commerce, creatives, economic development, incentives, land development, mesa, movie studio, planning, politics, tax credit
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Incentives Kill Creativity
The other day I had jotted down about wanting to talk about incentives killing creativity, because something someone said pissed me off. I put it in my GTD list and forgot about it. I came back today to [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
Tagged Creativity, incentives, performance, Productivity
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