Optimization versus Learning

Optimization versus Learning

I’m reading The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, and I can’t believe I haven’t read it until now. It’s the best business book I’ve read in a long time. I promise a full review once I’m done, but I couldn’t wait to point out one...
The Problem with Goals

The Problem with Goals

Everyone knows that you have to set goals in order to be successful, right? There are data to back up that assertion. I don’t remember the exact source now, but I remember hearing a study that saw a correlation with significantly higher salaries for people who...

This Shift Matters More than Others

I am a huge fan of Clay Shirky, and he wrote this post about the death of newspapers over on Medium. Then today I see an HBR blog post about how publishing is NOT dead. I’m not sure the two articles are as contradictory as they sound, but there was one line in...
Jamie Notter