Think Different

One of my favorite bloggers is Joe Raasch, of the Happy Burro blog. He recently "tagged" me as part of the Think Different challenge. I actually don’t know where it started, but it’s an interesting challenge where you are supposed to think differently...

Speaking the Truth

The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the interview where he reveals what I think is a common...

Re-Tuning Your Radar

Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is not my specialty, the title of the report caught...

Hard Work Means More than Hours

Seth Godin posts something he wrote four years ago in is blog, but some of its points I think are timeless. It’s mostly about what it means to work hard. In manual labor, that was easy to measure, but what about when we all sit at a desk? People then cite how many...

Set Up to Fail

I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about Middle Level Thinking (which happened to be my...
Jamie Notter