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Go Where No One Else Is

January 12, 2012January 12, 2012

ThedailybeastWed, Jan 11 2012 20:47:57Whitney Johnson, a partner at Clayton Christensen’s investment firm wrote a powerful piece in 2011 uniquely captured why pursuing a disruptive course is the best investment …

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Fearless Cultures Embrace Disruption

January 9, 2012

“From classrooms arranged in rows of seats to tenured professors, from the assembly line to the way we promote executives, we have been trained to expect an orderly life. Yet …

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Must-Read Weekend Reading

September 17, 2011September 16, 2011

[I’ve been developing a Harvard Magazine article on the demise of 800 lb gorillas, and the new rules played by those that replace them, so not as much writing this …

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Must-Read Weekend Reading …

September 10, 2011September 10, 2011

Wall Street rewards New Product Lines “There’s tremendous pressure on companies, particularly publicly traded companies, to grow and grow. You see, for the most part shareholders don’t profit from steadily …

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Why the How Matters

February 3, 2010July 16, 2011

Connecting with friends now that the New How  book is done about why I wrote it and the journey of 10 years it took me to really get why the …

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Little Things Like Pictures

January 30, 2010June 21, 2011

Friend/colleague writes he saw this “On the shelf at my local Barnes and Noble. In UTAH. So cool.”   It’s always the little things that can help brighten a day, …

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Is Business a Community?

September 16, 2008June 21, 2011

Yesterday, a debate ensued about whether business is a community. It is not said one party; community is this soft thing and business is fundamentally about the results that a …

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CNET: Note to privacy advocates: good luck

August 6, 2008

Google is back in the news as another privacy group gets hot and bothered about their eye in the sky. No one wants a satellite snooping, but the privacy group …

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The Wall Street Journal: Web Piracy: The Enemy Within?

August 4, 2008

While this Wall Street Journal story is about the entertainment industry, all of us involved in software would do well to take a look. Piracy of all kinds costs our …

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