On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. The authors are Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz. All are associated with… Read More 5 Days to New Ideas: Key Image
On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. To obtain information and register, click HERE. Here is a brief biography of each of the… Read More SPRINT Authors Have Diverse Backgrounds
(Thanks to Tom Pearce, from iLead, for putting me on to this. The article actually came out back in Spring, 2011. But, I suspect, we all have things to learn, to change, and then do). —————- Here’s the big mistake. Companies have bought too fully into the “leave them alone” approach. But, leaving people… Read More Google Discovers (Rediscovers) Soft Skills – These Simply Cannot Be Ignored
We have provided synopses for many books on technology over the now completed 14 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. Clearly, there are many avid readers who embrace technology and can’t wait to see what’s new. Here’s the next one that we will likely see covered in a book soon. It is called Project Glass, and… Read More The Technology We Will Read About Soon – The Online Buzz Last Week
On Slate.com today, there is a post mortem on Second Life, and a pre-mortem on the “doomed” Google+. The authors are the Heath Brothers (the Second Life piece: Why Second Life Failed), and Farhad Manjoo (the Google+ take down: Google+ Is Dead). So, what do we learn? (By the way, I am a big fan… Read More Second Life, Google+ and the Very Rough Road to Successful New (or Sort-Of-New) Endeavors
Here are the last two lines from Farhad Manjoo’s article Why I Won’t Stop Writing About Apple and Google: They’re innovative, they’re fascinating, and they’re polarizing: Nobody knows what the world will look like in 2015. But given their recent track records, my best guess is that Apple and Google are inventing it now. Manjoo… Read More Constant Innovation – It’s Not Good to be Behind
This is told by Peter Norvig, Google Research Director. In Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. This is part of the THE WRONG STUFF: WHAT IT MEANS TO MAKE MISTAKES series on Slate — a terrific series. Here’s the excerpt: There’s a story going back to the founding of… Read More Engineers Might Be Smarter than Sales and Marketing Folks – Insight about Error from Google
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