Wed 03-Feb-2010
I've just finished another audiobook, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
The book has an accessible framework for evaluating corporate cultures, each with instantly recognizable traits:
Stage 1: Life sucks.
Stage 2: My life sucks.
Stage 3: I'm great (and you're not).
Stage 4: We're great (and they're not).
Stage 5: Life is great.
Most companies are either stage 2 or 3. This book guides you in way to break through to the next stage.
There's a TED Talk about these tribes. I'd had the audiobook waiting on my ipod but was busy listening to other thing until I saw the TED video. It's all I've listened to in the past few days. At the end I discovered it was abridged and I want to find out what I've missed. The audiobook is available free courtesy of Zappos, a company renown for its culture.
As I write this there are 34 five-star reviews on Amazon, and no lesser reviews. Do yourself a favour and listen to the audiobook, and buy a copy for your boss.
Wed 27-Jan-2010
I've just finished listening to Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival. The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long.
It's worth reading, or as I did, listening to. It's available as a free, 7-hour long, audiobook from Audible.
Thu 14-Jan-2010
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."
--David Starr
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