Only one new book debuted on the Wall Street Journal business best-selling list, published on July 16-17, p. C10. The book is entitled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez (New York: Harper, 2016). The book was distributed on June 28, 2016, and debuted at # 5 in the… Read More Why Chaos Monkeys Flew in to the Best-Seller List at # 5
What have you learned? When have you learned? How do you keep learning? Does the average employee get better at his or her job? Does the average company/organization actually help people learn, so that that they can get better? Are you getting better at your job? (Yes, go ahead and ask me: “Are you, Randy… Read More Some thoughts on Learning Individuals in Learning Organizations
News item — Murdoch’s News Corp ponders MySpace sale: Loss-making social networking site has found it tough competing with rivals Facebook and Twitter. I have asked my students this question: “How many of you have a Myspace page? How about a Facebook page? My experience is this – Myspace came and went in the blink… Read More Why Facebook Beat Myspace… Focus On Innovation And Product Development
Constant innovation. That is the unending mantra. Constant innovation. Quick – which two modern companies jump to mind when you hear that phrase? Apple & Facebook. They both ooze constant innovation. And they are both run by people who are incredibly powerful/influential within their companies. What they want, they get! If Steve Jobs wants something… Read More Constant Innovation – Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and the Path to Dominance
“When you decide to sell off your problems, don’t sell off your best people. This is one of those little secrets of change. If you create a place where the best people always have a seat on the bus, they’re more likely to support changes in direction.” “At the top levels of your organization, you… Read More Get The Right People – Lesson #1 About A More Profitable, Impactful Future (Facebook’s Zuckerberg teaches us)
Confession time. I’m still pretty (very!) uncertain about how to take advantage of Facebook and LinkedIn. I’m still learning how to actually use Twitter. And I have friends, a son, a brother, who try to tell me how to do things with my computer, and I just have great trouble “getting it.” It’s so embarrassing!… Read More About Facebook & LinkedIn – a Little More Insight into these Modern Marvels
Maybe it seems too mind-blowing to even consider slowing down enough to institute a daily and weekly meeting structure, but gazelles that have done it are thrilled with the result… This rhythmic pulsing of daily and weekly meetings constitutes the real heartbeat of a growing company. Verne Harnish: Mastering The Rockefeller Habits. ——— Meetings have… Read More About All Those Meetings – Insight From Two Weekly Meetings At Facebook Headquarters
Facebook owns its market, maybe the whole world! But it wasn’t first – it was just simpler to use, (and very, very, very, very competitive). Here’s the key quote: Campus Network figured it out first. Facebook just executed it better. Read about this here: The Other Social Network: It launched first. It had cooler features.… Read More First is good – Better is better (Facebook won!)
I just wrote about ways we might have to lower expectations regarding what to expect from a job in this difficult economic climate. But, there is an alternative. We could just all go to work for Facebook. Last night, on ABC’s World News, Diane Sawyer interviewed/profiled Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook. Here is an… Read More Facebook – An Environment to Turbocharge Creativity
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