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07.30.10

The Four Phases of Design Thinking Innovation, blog, design | Comments Off
What can people in business learn from studying the ways successful designers solve problems and innovate? On the most basic level, they can learn to question, care, connect, and commit — four of the most important things successful designers do to achieve significant breakthroughs. Having studied more than a hundred top designers in various fields over the past couple of years (while doing research for a book), I found that there were a few shared behaviors that seemed to be almost second nature to many designers. And these ingrained habits were intrinsically linked to the designer's ability to bring original ideas ...
07.30.10

The Four Phases of Design Thinking Innovation, blog, design | Comments Off
What can people in business learn from studying the ways successful designers solve problems and innovate? On the most basic level, they can learn to question, care, connect, and commit — four of the most important things successful designers do to achieve significant breakthroughs. Having studied more than a hundred top designers in various fields over the past couple of years (while doing research for a book), I found that there were a few shared behaviors that seemed to be almost second nature to many designers. And these ingrained habits were intrinsically linked to the designer's ability to bring original ideas ...
07.29.10

Social Capitalism; The Scarce Resource is Time. Business Method, General Information, Innovation Economics, Knowledge Capitalization, Knowledge Integration, Percentile Search Engine, Predictions, plans, proposals, Social Capitalism, Time, blog, community, currency, intangible, knowledge inventory, market capitalism, mentor, neighbor, new economic paradigm, scarce commodity, tangible | Comments Off
Every living person is allocated a certain amount of time on Earth. Time is impossible to forge, debase, or otherwise counterfeit - unless stolen from someone else - as such, Time makes an excellent currency.
07.29.10

Social Capitalism; The Scarce Resource is Time. Business Method, General Information, Innovation Economics, Knowledge Capitalization, Knowledge Integration, Percentile Search Engine, Predictions, plans, proposals, Social Capitalism, blog, community, currency, intangible, knowledge inventory, market capitalism, mentor, neighbor, new economic paradigm, scarce commodity, tangible | Comments Off
Every living person is allocated a certain amount of time on Earth. Time is impossible to forge, debase, or otherwise counterfeit - unless stolen from someone else - as such, Time makes an excellent currency.
07.29.10

Training Your Brain to Increase Productivity blog, tips | Comments Off
The hot movie at theaters right now is the mind-melting thriller Inception in which thieves steal ideas by entering people's subconscious by way of their dreams. The thing about our subconscious is that it is at work even when we are awake and it can affect the nature and focus of our thoughts. For startups, maintaining focus on the most important goals of your company is imperative to success, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says he has learned to train his brain to do just that. Sponsor Graham is an excellent source of valuable information for startups, partly from the essays ...
07.29.10

Training Your Brain to Increase Productivity blog, tips | Comments Off
The hot movie at theaters right now is the mind-melting thriller Inception in which thieves steal ideas by entering people's subconscious by way of their dreams. The thing about our subconscious is that it is at work even when we are awake and it can affect the nature and focus of our thoughts. For startups, maintaining focus on the most important goals of your company is imperative to success, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says he has learned to train his brain to do just that. Sponsor Graham is an excellent source of valuable information for startups, partly from the essays ...
07.29.10

Google Plans To Make $10 Billion A Year From Mobile, One Android User At A Time News, blog | Comments Off
When a company releases its software for free, how does it plan to make money? If that particular company is Google, the answer is a familar one, advertising. Industry executives and Wall Street analysts are criticising Google for being short-sighted and focusing too intently on online advertising, accusing the search giant of being a “one trick pony”. Google doesn’t have a problem with that label however, even its CEO Eric Schmidt agrees, stating “I think that’s probably true”. Speaking in a recent interview, Schmidt added: “If you’ve got a one-trick pony, you want the one we have. We’re in the ad business, and ...
07.29.10

Google Plans To Make $10 Billion A Year From Mobile, One Android User At A Time News, blog | Comments Off
When a company releases its software for free, how does it plan to make money? If that particular company is Google, the answer is a familar one, advertising. Industry executives and Wall Street analysts are criticising Google for being short-sighted and focusing too intently on online advertising, accusing the search giant of being a “one trick pony”. Google doesn’t have a problem with that label however, even its CEO Eric Schmidt agrees, stating “I think that’s probably true”. Speaking in a recent interview, Schmidt added: “If you’ve got a one-trick pony, you want the one we have. We’re in the ad business, and ...
07.29.10

Advanced Entrepreneurship: Your Every Move, Your Culture Entrepreneurship, Organizational culture, Small/medium business, blog | Comments Off
Culture. It's subtle, it's everywhere, and it can make or break you. Zefer Corp was an internet consulting start-up whose CEO, Tony Tjan (also an HBR.org blogger), deliberately created a culture of youth, hipness, and hard work. Everything from the loftlike space with translucent-walled meeting areas to the young workforce went into the mix. High-caliber job candidates came to Zefer, despite better offers, because the culture itself was such a strong draw. Culture determines who will work for you, who stays, and who quits. Once formed, culture is nearly impossible to change. People who work well within the culture quickly self-select. ...
07.29.10

Advanced Entrepreneurship: Your Every Move, Your Culture Entrepreneurship, Organizational culture, blog | Comments Off
Culture. It's subtle, it's everywhere, and it can make or break you. Zefer Corp was an internet consulting start-up whose CEO, Tony Tjan (also an HBR.org blogger), deliberately created a culture of youth, hipness, and hard work. Everything from the loftlike space with translucent-walled meeting areas to the young workforce went into the mix. High-caliber job candidates came to Zefer, despite better offers, because the culture itself was such a strong draw. Culture determines who will work for you, who stays, and who quits. Once formed, culture is nearly impossible to change. People who work well within the culture quickly self-select. ...

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