Guy Kawasaki interviews Steven Smith, author of “egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)”.
Category: Business
I was delighted to attend Irving’s talk this morning. Some thoughts I retained and that I thought you may find insightful:
- Innovation: Move from Technology innovation to Business innovation and Societal innovation
- Complexity in IT: The need to learn from other engineering disciplines
- Traditionally we have been compensating the lack of engineering with good/talented labour (consultants)
- Business simulations to get it right the “first” time, like micro-processors/airplanes
- The move from Industrial economy to Knowledge economy
- And the move from “Classical” Engineering to “Services Sciences”
- Moving up the value-chain/pyramid: At the very bottom is Technology, then Products, then Applications and then Business
- Far fewer jobs expected at the bottom, and only the very best will be needed and will survive.
- Move up the value-chain to do an interesting job
- Business optimization > Business > Applications > Products > Technology
- Flexibility and Adaptability – Not just important for success (opportunity) but important for survival (fear)
- Fear >> Opportunities. Fear is more effective, typically.
- Biological systems and eco-systems: Survival of the fittest
- Business: Ability to respond to change
- Personal also.
- Human Designs – Visual, Interactive and Immersive interfaces for everything (virtual worlds)
An interesting quick read. Well thought and well presented.
The Manager’s Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders
“Ocean Tomo Auctions today announced it will offer for sale “the Jaipuria Patent”, U.S. Patent 7,047,202, and a pending continuation-in-part application, which are amongst the foremost patent filings related to the social networking industry. The Jaipuria Patent was filed in 2001 and claims priority to an earlier application filed in India in 2000 — before the growth of the social networking industry.” – Forbes (through Mashable)
37signals, an internet SaaS company, provides very intuitive, aesthetic, easy to use and free online tools for personal and collaborative project management. The services are chargeable for higher online storage requirements. The site has video demos to show how these tools work; worth giving a look. List is as follows:
Basecamp – project management and colloboration
Highrise – Track deals, clients, vendors, simple CRM
Backpack – Information organizer and calandar
Campfire – Real-time group chat with file sharing
The best feature is that all the conversations, file sharing, to-do lists, etc are archived in a calendar format and can be seen as an overview or can be searched or browsed through later.
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Ratan Tata: The Last Rajah
“If you put a gun to my head,” Tata declared, “you had better take the gun away or pull the trigger, because I’m not moving.”
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An Internet mogul known by few
Business 2.0 magazine covered the story of Kevin Ham’s life, an internet titan you’ve probably never heard of. A fascinating article.
Wow! $1,330 billion “nuclear” alternative.
International World Wide Web Conference is a global event that brings together key innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies shaping the Web. The conference is sponsored by the likes of Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Nokia and more.
Organized by the IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is an annual gathering place of the international community to discuss and debate the future evolution of the Web.
Past conference websites contain research papers, podcasts, presentations, posters etc. freely available for those interested.
Past conference websites: http://www2007.org/ http://www2006.org/ http://www2005.org/ and so on…
Next Conference: http://www2008.org/ (Beijing, China, April 2008)
“In the Eighties, the yuppies brayed into their oversized mobiles and Gordon Gekko declared in the film Wall Street that greed was good.
In the Nineties, Harry Enfield’s self-made Brummies boasted that they were “considerably richer than yow”, while City high-fliers guzzled magnums of Champagne and dashed around in their flashy sports cars.
A new generation of the seriously rich has emerged, but with a difference: the ostentation has gone. The new breed is self-made, socially aware, concerned about the planet and gives a lot of money to charity. They are the “Yawns” – young and wealthy but normal.” – Telegraph