Insights from The New Yorker Profile John Mackey, the co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market The New Yorker has a long article on Mackey which was a very good read. Since it is so long, I've summarized what I found interesting from it below. I'm terrible at summarizing and in college never got into highlighting my textbooks. When reading I either found it all really interesting or all really dull, so it was...
How Collective Intelligence Outperforms Individual Expertise How many jelly beans are in this jar? The crowd might know better than you do. I haven't had a chance to read Wisdom of Crowds yet by James Surowiecki, but an article in Building43.com was very interesting. It shows that collectively, a crowd/group's mind is better than your own when trying to solve a problem or answer a question. Check this out... So, although individually everyone was woefully...
Think Different Fostering Innovation in Your Organization Apple's iconic "Think Different" campaign from 1997 Apple had a famous ad campaign in 1997 asking people to "think different". How many of you think different? If you find you or your company struggles to think differently, I just reviewed a great list of 50 ways to foster innovation and here are my favorite from the ideachampions.com article: Remember that innovation requires no fixed rules or templates --...
I just read an interesting blog post from Benjamin Bran, who says cubicles are the phone booths of the future. I don't agree with everything he says, but in the end I think he is mostly right. Every morning I get up, shower, put on a shirt and tie, take my dog outside, and take my son to daycare the mornings I have him. From daycare (or straight from home) I usually sit in traffic round...
Anyone who knows me knows that I am for whatever reason, fascinated with barcodes. I've had some ideas in the past; some for what I do for a living and some for personal business ventures. Barcodes are amazingly powerful yet very simplistic. Evidently a design agency in Japan is doing some interesting things with tweaking the design of their barcodes, which I loved. Traditional barcodes focus on function over form What makes these designs particularly...
Telepresence and the Future of Communication I went to Cisco's headquarters yesterday in San Jose for a CMMA event to talk about what they are doing with their communications. We met with Margaret Smith Cisco's Collaboration Specialist and Abby Smith Cisco's Director of Employee Communications. Below are my notes from the visit. News@Cisco is their media portal Single site for Cisco Community and Social Media Newsroom.cisco.com 350+ RSS Feeds Where the public can go to...