Staying Up with The Feeds
Some good advice here on staying abreast of everything out there…
Latitude z Makes the Top 100
PC World ranks the Latitude Z as one of the best…
On Asking the Right Questions
Tim at Ideo in the NYT … love the emphasis on ideas…
Q. And how does that manifest itself in the way that you run IDEO?
A. I’ve gone to great lengths to try to encourage what I call an emergent culture at IDEO, where people understand that it’s essentially their responsibility to have good ideas. Not about the work they do every day — we all have to do that — but about new ideas for the company. What are we going to do next? What fields are we going to work in? What are our new big things?
And… on asking the right questions… “It’s very easy in business to get sucked into being reactive to the problems and questions that are right in front of you. And it doesn’t matter how creative you are as a leader, it doesn’t matter how good the answers you come up with. If you’re focusing on the wrong questions, you’re not really providing the leadership you should.
Q. Can you talk more about that?
A. I do think that’s something that we forget — as leaders, probably the most important role we can play is asking the right questions. But the bit we forget is that it is in itself a creative process. Those right questions aren’t just kind of lying around on the ground to be picked up and asked.
Marc’s New Book
An interview with Marc B from Salesforce on his new book… I read an early draft and thought it was the ideal “start-up bible”. A brilliant read from a brilliant guy.
Although the irony that a book about the cloud, isn’t available through the cloud, isn’t lost on me… please make this available on the Kindle…
Some Good Thoughts on Social Media ROI
I like the thinking here… And this struck me as a pretty good model for thinking about measurement:
