A Decline in the Quality of the Press
Many people have noted the decline in the credibility and quality of press, especially those of us who write on line. My last post on the subject is here. Today I read a great post on the press problems on A Major's Perspective. The Major is active duty U.S. Army and soon to be re-deployed back to Afghanistan for his second or third or fourth tour. The Major writes frequently about old fashioned themes such as democracy and freedom, human dece

HBS: A New Model for Innovation
Innovation is a subject that interests me, in part, because of its critical role in entrepreneurship. Christensen may have defined the economics of innovation, but the process of innovation continues to be a subject of much continuing research and study. Today's HBS

The Discipline of Writing
Will Price is a blogger who I like very much. In a post today he references a quote from William Faulkner, which is below."Faulker said, "I don't know what I think until I read what I said." That's not just a joke. You learn what you think by codifying your thinking in some way. Codifying one's thinking is an important step in inventing oneself. The most difficult way to do it is by thinking about thinking  - it helps to speak or write your thoughts. Writing is the most profound way of codifying yo

Social Media Strategy in 4 Words
Listen. Learn. Communicate. Engage.Yesterday's post discussed the power of simple and elegant communications to explain complex ideas. A reader sent me a description of corporate social media that brilliantly distilled the whole subject down to four words, as shown below:"Listen. Learn. Communicate. Engage."(The explanations that follow are mine.)Listen  A corporation must first listen to the social media stream, learn the differences between Twitter, Face

The Discipline of Elegance and Simplicity
I have a long held interest in both good design and mathematics. The common thread in both these subjects is that properly done, both achieve an elegance and simplicity in the expression of complex ideas and concepts. To achieve the necessary simplicity and elegance requires considerable discipline. In fact the discipline in some ways becomes the methodology to produce the end result. This type of discipline also applies to how you think about