Archive for May, 2007
The Waterline
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
links for 2007-05-16
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007-
Some sales pitches start off with a bang but the process seems to last forever. It becomes impossible to get a “yes” or “no” out of your potential client — they just string you along. Workshop contributor Janet Jai has some ideas to alleviate that proble
links for 2007-05-15
Monday, May 14th, 2007-
“Leadership as a process is more crucial than the leaders themselves.”
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Sorry, Mr. Parsons. Your fantasy of leading an insurgent band of Native Americans against a foolish invading army is just that: a fantasy. Google represents the insurgency here: your company represents the doomed army circling the wagons.
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Oooh, look, at the emperor’s lovely clothes
Credit rating agencies could be held liable for investor losses on complex securities backed by risky US subprime mortgages and other assets, according to a study.
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The authors used the teamwork literature to create potential items, which they tested using two surveys of college students (Ns = 2,777 and 1,157). The authors used exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to help them select items for
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Executives and managers own talent management. Data from Gallup and others points out that the relationship between employee and supervisor is the greatest indicator of employee engagement. For talent management to be successful, it has to be embraced, an
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However, management seems to be changing, as fields increasingly overlap, shared research heuristics have become established in, if not the overall field of management, then certainly in fields such as (notably) strategic management and marketing, and the
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No matter how monolithic they may seem, most companies are really engaged in three kinds of businesses. One business attracts customers. Another develops products. The third oversees operations. Although organizationally intertwined, these businesses have
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Hagel and Brown explain how to build a sustainable competitive advantage by focusing on three broad strategic imperatives: dynamic specialization, connectivity and coordination, and leveraged capability building.
The Road to Athens
Monday, May 14th, 2007Creativity
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
The Tube
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
links for 2007-05-12
Friday, May 11th, 2007-
Daniel Seth Loeb is an American hedge fund manager and founder of Third Point LLC, a New York based hedge fund managing over $3.5 billion in assets [1] [2]. Loeb is well known in the financial world for writing public letters in which he expresses disappr
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The five-factor model has ascended to a dominant position within the field of personality research over the last two decades. In this paper, I present a framework for understanding the `truth value’ of the five-factor model by comparing the role of the fi
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# Test different versions of a page to see which works better # Discover which ad placement gives the best results # Find out which design encourages visitors to click deeper # Learn which content leads to improved sales
the rain of sun
Friday, May 11th, 2007
links for 2007-05-11
Thursday, May 10th, 2007-
This new system should help eBay continue to drive higher revenue per listing–one key to revitalizing the core commerce business. Recent RPL gains have come as a result of reduced listings after the Ebay Store pricing hike in August. Feedback 2.0 should
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The vast majority of designers put their talent to where the money is: crafting products and services that aim to beguile the richest 10% of the world’s population. Nothing wrong with making a living. But could the tens of thousands of designers who fashi
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This is from a piece on the role of peer review and scientific consensus in the global-warming debate. Notes Higgs: “Science is an odd undertaking: everybody strives to make the next breakthrough, yet when someone does, he is often greeted as if he were
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You are the most important person in the world. The centers of power are shifting and that is always going to be a turbulent time. The future is not plastics, but relationships. Get ready for it
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It strikes me that, “What’s the point?” is often what depressed people ask of life itself. I think it’s a statement dressed up as a question; the statement might be “I feel miserable”. From this place of unhappiness comes this apparent need for life to ha
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The Ultimate Rejection Letter
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By implication, a Paretian world requires a much more dynamic view of the world, one that looks for patterns in evolving relationships, rooted deeply in context, and that understands how these changing patterns reshape who we are as well as our opportunit
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1. Superstars are overrated.
2. Great systems are more important than great people.
3. Create smaller rather than larger pay differences between “star” employees and everyone else.
4. The law of crappy people (great people will hire oth -
A CNN article posted online last month has re-appeared in the headlines today, probably in response to the woman who is virtually selling virtually (sic) all her belongings in one single auction on EBay (see the actual listing here). To spare you the read
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Charlie over at This is going to be BIG has pulled together a list of 10 reasons Web 2.0 sucks. In reading the post I found that it tied in nicely with some of the things in my recent post about how many people were really online. Go read the full post to
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A funky page…