shift and share

I knew the DesignShop process was patented, of course, but it’s eye opening to see the actual patent itself. If you’ve got the time, this is pretty much the most lucid description of the process and its components that I’ve seen.

We know that having time to sleep on something often gives us perspective, but this article in the New York Times goes a long way to pull together some of the research on why that is. It offers a lot of specific insight into the idea that a good deal of information sorting takes place [...]

Excellent discussion between Don Tapscott and Google’s Eric Schmidt; part of Google’s Author series. This is a useful primer on the ideas of mass collaboration.
An interesting moment, I thought, was Tapscott’s suggestion that success in the old paradigm makes it more difficult to adopt the new one…sounds a lot like our saying; “Nothing Fails like [...]

 
A recent recommendation lead me to “Dealing with Darwin”, a superb book on sustaining innovation within the enterprise.
Interestingly, one of Moore’s core models is almost a carbon copy of the Stages of an Enterprise model, but he goes a long way to elaborate on the “entrepreneurial button”, especially as it pertains to [...]