JP Castlin wrote a LinkedIn post titled The risk(s) of not understanding risk (May 13, 2024).
Continue reading “Risk: Global averages do not apply to local failures if they can be catastrophic.”Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking
Maria Popova wrote a book review on Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.
Continue reading “Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking”Marketing Podcast on Adaptive Strategy, Efficiency, and Resilience
Shahin Khan and Doug Garnett interviewed JP Castlin about Adaptive Strategy, Efficiency, and Resilience for their Marketing Podcast #41 (5 April 2024).
Continue reading “Marketing Podcast on Adaptive Strategy, Efficiency, and Resilience”Too much heroic leadership, Not enough engaging management.
Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post title Managing to Lead (19 February 2015).
« I propose an end to the belief that leadership is separate from management, and superior to it. »
Continue reading “Too much heroic leadership, Not enough engaging management.”CFOs play an outsized role in crushing innovation.
Roger L. Martin wrote a Medium post titled How to Become a Strategic Chief Financial Officer (1 April 2024).
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On his eponymous podcast, Lex Fridman interviewed Jeff Bezos.
Continue reading “Jeff Bezos: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.”Management Debt
Parv Sondhi tweeted “We’ve all heard of technical debt, but I love this concept of management debt.”
He refers this a passage from the book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014) by Ben Horowitz:
Continue reading “Management Debt”Can you Copyright a Golf Course? Not Yet…
Kirk Hartung wrote an article titled The BIRDIE Act: Copyrights for Golf Courses (March 21, 2024).
Continue reading “Can you Copyright a Golf Course? Not Yet…”Can You Patent a Pizza?
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley co-hosted a Gastropod podcast episode titled Can You Patent A Pizza? (March 5, 2024, 49 minutes). Guests included Anthony Mongiello, inventor of stuffed crust pizza; Chris Sprigman, law professor, NYU; Valerie Flugge, assistant professor of business law, California State University, Northridge.
Continue reading “Can You Patent a Pizza?”The complex ontology
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled The Unspoken Limits of Business Philosophy. Fortunately, the World Is Far Bigger (28 February 2024).
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