Dan Jansenson wrote an article for the Santa Monica Mirror titled It’s Time to Reevaluate Scooter Rules. Continue reading “eScooter injuries in Santa Monica”
Abandoned Maine paper mill resurrected by Chinese cardboard company
The New York Times ran a story titled A Maine Paper Mill’s Unexpected Savior: China about a 130-year old paper mill in Old Town, Maine. Continue reading “Abandoned Maine paper mill resurrected by Chinese cardboard company”
The habits of effective managers at Google
Justin Bariso, author of EQ Applied, wrote an article for Inc. titled Google Spent a Decade Researching What Makes a Great Boss. It Came Up With These 10 Things. Continue reading “The habits of effective managers at Google”
Parker Hannifin’s shift from cost-plus to market-based pricing
Timothy Aeppel wrote a Wall Street Journal article titled Seeking Perfect Prices, CEO Tears Up the Rules dated March 27, 2007. Continue reading “Parker Hannifin’s shift from cost-plus to market-based pricing”
Grey Thinking
Farnham Street posted an article titled The Value of Grey Thinking. Continue reading “Grey Thinking”
Negativity Bias
John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal titled For the New Year, Say No to Negativity. Tierney and Baumeister are authors of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
« negativity bias, it’s the universal tendency for bad events and emotions to affect us more strongly than positive ones. » Continue reading “Negativity Bias”
Price and Complexity
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Price and Complexity (Part 1): Communication Affects the Pricing Wilderness.
« Pricing is at the center of a very complex system… In a complex system the parts are inter-related and a decision made in one area immediately affects the decisions for one or two (or all) of the other areas as well… Price is tightly connected, in fact, to each of the other 3Ps as well as the rest of a company, to competitive moves, to distribution channel and to a wide range of customer behavior and psychology. » Continue reading “Price and Complexity”
Honest Slogans
See this humorous collection of 40 Honest Advertising Slogans by Clif Dickens. More here.
Establishing a progress mindset not a growth mindset
Timothy Humphrey wrote a LinkedIn post titled Why Progress not Growth should be your goal. Continue reading “Establishing a progress mindset not a growth mindset”
Reconceptualizing organizations: from complicated machines to flowing streams
Sonja Blignaut wrote an article on Medium titled Reconceptualising organisations: from complicated machines to flowing streams.
« Over the last few years, I have come to realise that the interplay between flow, constraints and options is key to understanding how to navigate and thrive in complexity. With “flow”, I mean flow in the broadest sense of the word. There are some flows that we are very familiar with: workflow, process flow, cash flow, data flow, information flow … however, we need to broaden our thinking. » Continue reading “Reconceptualizing organizations: from complicated machines to flowing streams”
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