“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…
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Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From
Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Book Report: Obliquity
“In general, oblique approaches recognize that complex objectives tend to be imprecisely defined and contain many elements that are not necessarily or obviously compatible with each other, and that we learn about the nature of the objectives and the means…
Tagged with: Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin, David Beckham, eudaimonia, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin's Gambit, Goodhart's Law, hindsight bias, Homo economicus, John Kay, metrics, objectives, Obliquity, Robert McNamara, shareholder value, strategy, Winston Churchill
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Justifying our actions with Franklin’s Gambit
“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one had a mind to do.” – Benjamin Franklin I came upon that quote from the preface…
Tagged with: Benjamin Franklin, consulting, decision-making, duplicity, Franklin's Gambit, hindsight, John Kay, justification, Obliquity, Office Space, rationalization
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
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