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Entries from December 2009

Traveling to Ukraine

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

From December 26th to January 5th I will be in Lugansk, Ukraine. It is likely that I will not blog while I am there, but than again, who knows. Aside from personal reasons for the trip, I will get a chance to meet Professor Kamin, who is one of the TRIZ education experts and an [...]

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Tags: FutureWorks · Great Books

Is Google wave turning in to a dud?

December 20th, 2009 · No Comments

I hope it is not so, because I love the promise of it, but my own wave account seems to suggest that it is.  Gone is the excitement of the early use, now it looks like my 20+ wave contacts have not updated a wave in at least a few weeks, I find myself logging [...]

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Tags: Innovation

What do white cows drink?

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Human mind is fascinating. It can precisely solve complex problems and get tripped up by the most basic questions. What do white cows drink? Water, surely.  But I can almost bet your first response was milk.  Being aware of the mind’s eccentricities is very important in both marketing and management. Predictably Irrational,  Nudge: Improving Decisions [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · 5. Expanding Market · Great Books

Competence, Confidence, Courage

December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have to be grateful to Susan Marshall for sharing these three fundamentals of excellent management: Competence,  Confidence and Courage. Like most powerful truths, this one seems so self evident once you have heard it, but it is still worth considering.
Nobody can really achieve success without these three, especially in the role of leading others. [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management

Luck or Skill, Chasing Variation

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

There are some excellent books that have been written on the subject of Randomness, it’s impact on business and life decisions and how easily we can be fooled by it. I can’t claim that I can add too much to the  discussion on the said topic. But it has always fascinated me how we struggle [...]

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Tags: 4. Effective Method