Monthly Archives: June 2011
A feedback rypple
Feedback: it’s so easy to do in theory, and so badly done in practice. I’m delighted to see my friends (and strategic partners of Box of Cray0ns) at Rypple get some great press in Wired and The Globe and Mail … Continue reading
Steve Shapiro, Goal Free Living
Einstein said, “If I had an hour to work out a problem, I would spend 59 minutes trying to figure out what was the actual problem and then one minute on the solution.” Steve Shapiro has applied this idea to … Continue reading
What’s work?
I’m raging against the experience of work that most of us suffer. And you know I’ve parsed things down to Bad Work, Good Work and Great Work. But have I ever tried to pin down exactly what is work? Not … Continue reading
Shawn Coyne, Brainsteering
How do you conduct brainstorming sessions that don’t suck? Shawn Coyne, author of Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas” helps answer this question. Shawn is a former McKinsey consultant and with his brother Kevin, he is a founder of … Continue reading
Derek Sivers, CD Baby
If you work in the music biz, you’ve heard of Derek Sivers, a musician and founder of CD Baby. CD Baby was started in 1997 to sell Derek’s own CD and then became a hobby to help out his friends. … Continue reading
