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5 Innovation Lessons

A book title that really appealed to me was “Why things Fail” by British Economist Paul Ormerod, so I picked up a copy last year. The book is a study into similar patterns of failure that appear in a variety of different environments (biology, geology, economics etc). The guts of the book (warning spoiler ahead)…

February 23, 2009
consumer innovation

One of the things that I love about my iPhone is that is a fully fledged 16gb iPod as well as a multimedia device and phone. Every time I go for a drive (or catch a tram) I am now entertained and or challenged by podcasts that I subscribe to (they automatically get downloaded to…

February 16, 2009
Ambassadors of Hate

I was reading Michel’s piece from last week “Let Culture be your Guide” and it occurred to me that Michel didn’t talk much about the people that were let go. Other than “we let them know why they were going and we worked with many of them again in the future”. Her article focussed on…

February 10, 2009
the other networking

This morning I got a message from my niece on Facebook, two messages from colleagues on Linkedin , 1 SMS messages and a couple of dozen emails. Which got me thinking about networking. I use social networking tools LinkedIn and Facebook regularly (not heavily) but probably not the way most people think. I tend to…

February 10, 2009
The Boogey Man

One of my relatives occasionally drives me mad with his worrying: How would it look if he failed? What would his wife say? What if he didn’t like it? His worrying almost always to takes the same form. 1. Identify the worst case outcome (eg usually a combination of bankruptcy/divorce courts/public ridicule). 2. Don’t explore…

February 3, 2009
Bookmarks

At anyone time I have around 5 books on my bedside table. I tend to buy books I want to read and dump them there until I get to them, plus I tend to read more than one book at a time. To stop myself from just reading trashy novels, I have process – I…

January 21, 2009
Lessons from the Adult Entertainment Industry

Fiona Patten and I were both born in 1964. At around 26 I made a major change in my life and moved from Western Australia to Victoria. I had actually planned to move to NSW, but never quite made it there as my intermediate move to Melbourne kept on getting extended. 18 years later with…

December 8, 2008
iPhone apps make sense

This afternoon I popped into a corner coffee shop in the city to have coffee with a friend of mine. She was, in her own words, “super excited” as she had just launched (yesterday) her first iPhone application. She of course hassled me to download it, but apparently it wanted to download via the internet,…

December 4, 2008
Open Source & Free CRM

I’m connected to Jodie Benveniste of Parent Wellbeing via LinkedIn . I’m not exactly sure how we met (She’s in Adelaide, I’m in Melbourne) , but I think it was because she read some of my articles and liked them. And because I have kids, I read some of hers. Anyway, she sent me an…

December 1, 2008
Unique Books for Browny Points

According to Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteful I am a member of the Australian middle class, and I am either driven by money or cultural attainments. I reckon cultural attainments push my buttons. My wife clearly sits on the cultural attainments side as well as she values a unique experience much more than a…

November 25, 2008

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