In a great HBR piece, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen dissect the way that businesses are applying social sciences in better sensemaking about customer phenomenology: how people experience life. This leaps… Read more »
Last week, I contacted Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of the search company DuckDuckGo. I had heard about the company’s ‘inbound hiring’ model — where they basically hire almost exclusively… Read more »
If you were going to create a car company today, who would you look to for inspiration? General Motors? The world beater of the 20th Century, that ‘led global vehicle sales… Read more »
We are in a curious time of the year. Software companies in the US seem to delay product releases to miss the first few weeks of the year — perhaps because… Read more »
Last week’s weekly update was entitled Things that didn’t happen, and what that means, which was directed toward 2013 in retrospect. I am keeping to that theme this week, and trying… Read more »
I’ve had a head cold for a few days, and paradoxically, that has me thinking in a backwards way about what went on last week. Or, actually, about things that didn’t… Read more »
I have read at least ten articles and posts about the now-conventional notions about the future of work over the past few weeks. Perhaps this is because there is little breaking… Read more »
William James once observed (although I can’t find the reference), You can judge a man’s intelligence by how well he agrees with you. This post is about some recent thoughts by… Read more »
“The number of requests we get for an on-premise solution is down 90%. It used to be one of the most common requests. Now it’s almost completely disappeared.” – Phil LibinI… Read more »
I’m struck by two trends and how they are actually reflections of each other, Microsoft and CIOs — long-time partners — now share a key weakness: they are stuck in the… Read more »