Don’t kid yourself. Thinking that you can find new solutions is not only a matter of science. It’s a matter of faith. It’s not faith founded on belief without substance or experience.
But sometimes our experiences play tricks on us. We don’t see the real problems and the real solutions. [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 23, 2009
Teach me how to fail – we need the money!
We only learn by our failures. Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard that before. And your cheque is in the mail.
We all repeat this by rote like a demented parrot. How many actually believe it? And if we do, why don’t we act like it?
The cynic would say that the reason [...]
May 20, 2009
Innoculate Your Organization Against Change!
This just in. A group of scientists today announced that they has successfully created a vaccine which is almost 100% effective in preventing any change within an organization.
A spokesperson for the group claimed that they had decoded the basic DNA of organizational change and come up with a fool-proof method of ensuring that change [...]
May 10, 2009
Catherine Tries A Tweet – Why We Suck At Commercializing Web Technology
The Cluetrain Manifesto made the best statement about customers that I’d ever heard. “We aren’t eyeballs, or clicks — We are people. Live with it.” Yet as I hear the debate resurface about how we commercialize social networks, I wonder if we really learned from our earlier experiences? It’s not hype, [...]
