“Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you’ll land amongst the stars”
I have to admit when I first heard of the Canadian Olympic Foundation’s goal of “Owning the Podium” at the 2010 Olympics I was a bit taken back, it just didn’t seem very “Canadian” to me. And even though I [...]
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The good type of failure
The FriendDA or I promise not to be a moron
After writing my last post, I circulated it to a mailing list and had a bunch of nice responses. There was some interesting conversation and some interesting ideas, which is always a good thing. One interesting email came from a business school classmate of mine who’s working on an interesting concept to disrupt [...]
An MBA’s opinion on MBAs and start ups
There’s an interesting post on some dude’s (or dudette’s for that matter) posterous about MBA’s and start ups. The post starts off talking about a conversation that was overheard at some café in the valley where a couple of MBAs are going off about joining a start up and the fast lane to riches. [...]
Being nice as a long term strategy
I’ve been lucky to work and meet some really smart people in the business world. Some people who are really creative, innovative, intelligent, analytical, strategic etc etc etc. But there’s a real differentiator that some of them have which others don’t, being nice.
My definition of nice is polite, making time [...]
Market share today doesn’t mean market share tomorrow
I’m really enjoying using the Amazon Kindle application on the iPod Touch. I’ve downloaded 3 books and read 1 full book and am halfway through the second. Reading books on an eReader is not something I thought I would really enjoy – at least not as much as I have so far. [...]
Apples and oranges, an EU Zappos?
Okay, this is going to be my last post around cultures in Europe, I promise (fingers crossed behind my back just in case).
Tech Crunch UK Europe (sorry Mike) has a post up about Spartoo.com raising 12M Euros today, calling the company the “Zappos of Europe”, sure Zappos and Spartoo both sell shoes, have an s [...]
European company cultures
I’ve been reading Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (note I’ve started using Amazon Affiliate links on my blog posts as a trial) on my iPod this week, I’m really enjoying the book but I can’t help but think about where all the international examples of great companies/leaders/tribes are?
This is especially [...]
Some thoughts for 2010
Had an interesting back and forth this morning with my friend Natasja about best of versus prediction lists. I like being nostalgic, but my preference is for thinking forward. Natasja’s point about lists being based on the “now” and not saying anything new, is a good one. But still which trends are [...]
Owning the conversation
I love Disqus. It’s made managing comments on my blog pretty easy, between that and Facebook, I feel like I can engage with the people who read my posts pretty well. I own the conversation. I can’t always control where the discussion goes, and nor do I want to, I’m not a [...]
My thoughts on LeWeb 09
Earlier this year, I set myself some objectives and gave my year a theme. 2009 was to be the year of “Learning to do”. I spent previous years, thinking, pontificating, learning but not really doing much. So, I told myself that by LeWeb in 2009 I wanted to have done some stuff [...]