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Entries from July 2010

Making progress

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Being productive is a habit that can be developed and can be lost. I see it every day in the stores where employees are under-worked. When it comes time to be busy they have a hard time picking up the pace and thus lose customers and continue on with the same under-worked pattern. Keeping productively busy even during [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower

Getting started on the new book

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Actually, something even more exciting happened this week, but  I can’t talk about it yet. So, I will tell you about a post singularity sci fi book that I decided to write. I have a problem with all sci fi that I have ever read in that it does not reach far enough, it lacks [...]

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Tags: FutureWorks · Great Books · Innovation

Feedback loops and lack thereof

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments

If I had to describe in one concept the key reason for management failure it is the lack of feedback loops. An effective feedback loop reinforces positive dynamics or weakens the negative ones. It allows for the situation where nobody is surprised and if I could describe the state of business awareness that is necessary [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management

Why USA is still a leading economy and why it will not last

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Yesterday I spent 45 minutes to walk to a restaurant that promised me free WIFI to speak for 2 minutes with a technician from a company that is a contractor to their contractor, who has agreed for pay to arrange an Internet connection for my wedding day that will be provided through a different provider [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · Economics · Education · FutureWorks · Politics

First phase of TRIZ training is complete

July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Over the last week, I have had an opportunity to go through one-on-one TRIZ training program with Alex Kamin and feel that I have benefited greatly from it. There are many books and other such content that he gave me that I will be working on, the rest of the summer, but most importantly he [...]

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Tags: Education · FutureWorks