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Do we want success or failure?
Reading this interview of Steve Ballmer, I was struck by his answer to the question, “How do you assess job candidates?”: If they come from inside the business, the best predictor of future success is...
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Detroit: the picture in our attic
I haven’t seen that many of the great American cities. I have visited New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, but not San Francisco, LA, Atlanta, or Seattle. However, I can say that I have lived in...
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Learning from failure or success
In a round up following KM Australia, back in August, Shawn Callahan has challenged the notion that we learn best from failure. I think he has a point — the important thing is learning, not failure....
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How do law firms stay alive?
As the global financial crisis bit, and (in England and Wales at least) the regulatory landscape shifted for law firms, there was a sense that the coming years would see the collapse of a significant...
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Innovation: the importance of ‘why’
My friend Mary Abraham has written a characteristically perceptive post about the lessons innovators should learn from the pyramid builders. It is both interesting and useful. Mary’s lessons can be...
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The unknown future of technology
Last week saw the fortieth anniversary of the first commercial passenger-carrying Concorde flight, as highlighted in this tweet by Aviation Week: #AWarchives: the inaugural @British_Airways #Concorde...
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Process won’t save you from mistakes
One of the benefits of Twitter for me is that I get great pointers for new things to read from the people I follow. One such came a couple of weeks ago from Simon Bostock. He drew my attention to...
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