One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Thought Sparks
Free Download of Interview in Harvard Business Review for the first 100 subscribers
This month's Harvard Business Review features the partial transcript of an interview that I did with Sarah Cliffe on how one can tell if your business model is in trouble. The Review has offered free digital… Read more »
Learning from Failure
A MBA Admissions site cites Rita McGrath: It’s tempting to gloss over all past mistakes or errors in judgment when you’re immersed in the MBA admissions process; after all, competition for a place in a… Read more »
Nice start to the year - Directors’ publication recommends Discovery Driven Growth
A good friend and very successful publicist, Mark Fortier was kind enough to pass along the information that Discovery Driven Growth has been recommended by the editors of "Agenda" magazine, a magazine aimed at corporate directors. … Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Managing Failure
Blogging Innovation refers to Entrepreneurial Mindset in their blog entitled Managing Failure
BBQ Parties for guys? Release your inner Avon!
Among the sites I enjoy visiting is Springwise, a web site dedicated to spotting interesting new ideas from all around the world. This week they discovered a doozy – Barbecue parties targeted at men, at… Read more »
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
The corruption of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
By now, most people are familiar with Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk business. Here's how it works: if you have a job that needs to be done that really requires a person to do it, you can post… Read more »
Ghost cities of China – some amazing pictures
Next to the Federal Reserve, China holds most of America's debt. A recent National Public Radio broadcast said that China was acting like "the big man on campus" (a more polite radio-friendly term than I… Read more »
WikiLeaks, the Cloud, and You!
I recently argued over at my Harvard Business Review blog that recent dramatic releases of information that was meant to be private (Karen Owens' revelations of intimate relationships and the ongoing WikiLeaks revelations) are likely… Read more »