Sometimes all it takes is doing a little analysis, putting that analysis on a map and making that map available. Then (in the words of Emeril) *BAM* you look like a genius. There’s something about showing where places are and being able to see a relative distance that adds the non-table driven context. It’s that…
If you don’t know what you are doing, why are you doing it?
Just stop and ask directions. You may be closer to understanding that you think you are. But you may also be further. When in doubt don’t remain in doubt. Seek clarification, seek help, don’t be your own worst enemy.
Are you Apple, Google or Microsoft?
Apple: control every aspect of the experience. Put it all together in a very tight package and focus on a very specific market. Don’t worry about getting 50% market share – do everything top notch and deliver. Keep margins high. Google: go for market share. Don’t worry about controlling the experience – control the delivery…
The reason silos are REALLY bad.
Why do people choose you over your competitor? Usually it’s going to be because of one of three things: They already know and trust you. You can do a better job than the other guy for the same or better cost. You can bring more value than the competitor. Get one (or more) of those…
The romance of days lost.
I’m going to go all geeky on folks around here and point you to a fabulous webcomic called Dinosaur Comics. The premise is simple – everyday uses the exact same panel sequence and images, the only thing that changes is the text and conversation. It’s taking the concept of a limited canvas and using it…
When you get beat-up a lot it’s hard to keep delivering.
There’s a school of thinking out there that it is important to fail. I can’t agree more. Mistakes are more memorable than successes and often have more complete lessons to learn. But sometimes failure leads to a person getting beaten up all the time. And the process of beating them up leads them to become…
Just Deliver
Two words. Just deliver. If you can’t do that then get out of the way because you’re going to slow the rest of us back. And when it’s time for us to deliver we aren’t going to slow down for you.
Copying can be a really good thing.
Let’s say that you are a real estate broker. Now let’s say that you have started losing a disproportionate amount of work to the guy across the street. Now let’s pretend that you can pinpoint some new online tool he started using as the reason why he’s winning. What do you do next? If you…
Value creation versus value capture.
Was over reading some thoughts from Fred Wilson at AVC. Somehow I’d never really captured the O’Reilly Doctrine the right way: Create more value than you capture. That should be the mission of every business out there. If you aren’t creating value for someone what the hell are you doing in business? If you aren’t…
Been way too quiet around here….yeah, I know.
So apparently blogs still don’t have the ability to write themselves. I’m really going to have to submit a feature request to WordPress about that. How handy would it be to simply have an app that replicates a post you’d be likely to make given your influences and post topics…..now that’s something intriguing. But anyway….