"The High-Velocity Edge" was given to the attendees at the Lean Software & Systems Conference this year, as Steven J. Spear was one of the keynote speakers. I enjoyed the book and have dog-eared pages and underlined throughout.
"The High-Velocity Edge" was given to the attendees at the Lean Software & Systems Conference this year, as Steven J. Spear was one of the keynote speakers. I enjoyed the book and have dog-eared pages and underlined throughout.
I just finished reading David Byrne's somewhat autobiographical research, How Music Works. I found Talking Heads and some of his other projects playing on the stereo much more frequently than usual.
Mobile phones are the best thing since sliced bread. They are the worst invention since television commercials. Yin. Yang. Are your mobile devices distracting you from getting things done? Or are they part of your web of tools that you use to accomplish things today?
I've written about the common focus on efficiency several times here. This time it's inspired by an HBR blogs article by Casey Haksins and Peter Sims, "The Most Efficient Die Early.'
Collaboration is all around us. But so too is active disengagement of people we might expect would want to collaborate. Tom Graves provides some thoughts about this through the metaphor of a kids' train set.
Thoughts inspired by a Clay Shirky keynote talk from 2003.
Turns out that you can run Flash on iOS, you just can't use applications provided by Apple. Try Diigo Browser or Puffin Browser - at least they work at the time of this writing.
The 2012 World's MAKE has been announced with Apple as the overall winner.
Are there different types of communities? And does that suggest that we have to approach them differently in terms of community management?
Our definition of "good" is tied up in our values and the contexts in which we work. If you want "better" outcomes, then think about what you value in your work. Thanks to Dan Ward for putting these things together in my head.
I drew David Allen's logic in response in describing why people get overwhelmed at work (and elsewhere).