January 2010
49 posts
“If you work hard enough to make yourself good at what you do, then you have to...”
– Dan Schawbel
The Ideas aren’t the hard bit
Ideas and innovations are maid up out of our heads. The Ideas aren’t the hard bit. They’re a small component of the whole. Creating believable people who do more or less what you tell them to is much harder.
You gel ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions are:
What if…?
If only…
I wonder…
Wouldn’t it be interesting if…
...
WatchDepeche Mode - Fragile Tension
The Balanced Scorecard framework
The Balanced Scorecard framework is comprised on the interrelations between four perspectives on a business: Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process and Learning and Growth. Understanding the cause and effect linkages between these four arenas is critical to making effective use of a scorecard in organization strategy. The illustration is very simple and shows small business firm.
Here is...
How to Build Your Dream →
azspot:
In the age of democratized industry, every garage is a potential micro-factory, every citizen a potential micro-entrepreneur. Here’s how to transform a great idea into a great product.
1) INVENT Stop whining about the dearth of cool products in the world — dream up your own. Pro tip: Check the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site to ensure no one else had the idea first.
2) DESIGN...
An addiction to crisis management can be built in...
An addiction to crisis management can be built in to the organizational culture (A).
Piling patch upon patch and fixing crisis after crisis acclimrates organization’s managers to perpetual frenzy. “Firefighters” are no longer aware of being “firefighters.” They are simply doing their job, reinforced by both formal rewards and the informal perception that crises are an inevitable and acceptable...
“Well planned marketing looks like a good show.”
The brick approach →
bobulate:
Unexpected wisdom from Will Smith talking with Charlie Rose on approaching tasks:
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s every been built. You don’t start there. You say I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. …. You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. (~23:00)
I’ve always...
“As all living organisms, the living company exists first of all for the sake of...”
– Arie de Geus
“Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?”
– Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
Simple Balanced Scorecard of Customer Perspective
The last part of a Simple Balanced Score is the Customer Perspective.
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“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until...”
– Mike Myers (via littlemiss)
Simple Balanced Scorecard of Financial Perspective
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“You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been...”
– Meryl Streep (via nancysun)
“Technology, increasingly, makes us all witnesses to crises. And yet, only those...”
– Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Journalists covering disasters feel “ghoulish and intrusive”, but in bearing witness they amplify the conditions borne by victims and relief workers.
(via designtumblelog)
“…knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5.”
– Eric Schmidt (via azspot)
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via delgrosso)
Simple Balanced Scorecard of Internal Business...
One more part of a simple balanced score is an Internal Business Perceptive
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The Shack →
“We should totally leave every day to feel satisfaction looking back.”
– Konosuke Matsushita #quote
Simple Balanced Scorecard of Learning & Growth...
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“RIGHT-BRAINERS WILL RULE THE FUTURE”
– Daniel H. Pink
In the World
Barefooted and naked of breast, I mingle with the people of the world. My clothes are ragged and dust-laden, and I am ever blissful. I use no magic to extend my life; Now, before me, the dead trees become alive.
Comment: Inside my gate, a thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of my garden is invisible. Why should one search for the footprints of the patriarchs? I go to the market place with...
“Power is the skill to implement tactics, according to advantage.”
– Sun Tzu
ARIS Web Publishing value-added chain diagram
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“Independently of that, what exist in your reality, you either enjoy it, either...”
– Vivation
Kusan Sunim Enlightenment
At the bottom of the ocean, in the cuckoo nest, deer brood the egg.
In the middle of fire, in the spiders net the fish is steeping tea.
Who knows, what’s happening in this house?
Wight clouds are drifting to the west;
the moon rises on the east.
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
ARIS approach to Strategic marketing (function...
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ARIS approach to Operative marketing (function...
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ARIS view at twitting office process
6 tricks for better reaction of mind and fingers
Fingerboard can train reaction not only your of fingers, but also your brain. So you can keep practising even at home. First of them is heelflip.
The second trick you can learn is varialKICKFLIP.
Another useful trick you can leann on fingerboard is pop shove-it. Here is how it is done.
The forth trick for fingerboard is called kickflip and it is done as following.
Don’t worry....
Disturbia vs.The Tramps