Tonight I heard the one of the best definitions of leadership I’ve ever encountered:
“Leadership is the ability to achieve your goals through the efforts of others.”
- Pastor Elisha (a Vietnamese pastor)
It’s perhaps a bit one-sided … and you’d have to be careful that this kind of leadership wouldn’t deteriorate into manipulation, but it’s a […]

I recently went through some Lean Transformation training provided by Simpler Consulting, and one of the facilitators said that “best is the evil enemy of good.”
I was a little surprised by that, because I’ve always thought that good is the enemy of best … people are satisfied with ‘good,’ and so they don’t put out […]

Rastin is blogging, and it’s A Good Thing™.
At very least, you now have an outlet for those feelings of unrequited love, Rastin.

OK, maybe that’s overstating the case a little.

Saw this nugget in a comment on Business Week:

Don’t forget the basic formula for success–first, best, or different.

If you’re launching a new product or service, those are good words to remember.

Dave is blogging again.
I guess once you’ve had your first hit, you’re hooked.
I see that, as of 30 minutes ago, he is not at home. Bad boy, cool app.
My only question, Dave, is: why Movable Type? Was it preinstalled or something? Wordpress is clearly superior (ok, I’m somewhat biased) and certainly much cooler.

So Edgar Bronfman (the guy for whom the statement the best way to make a small fortune is to start with a big fortune could have been created) wants a piece of iPod sales:

Mr. Bronfman said the music industry should not have to use its content to promote the sale of digital music devices for […]

Wouldn’t you like to have your own store online, with your own products?
No, not the kind of store that is really someone else’s, filled with someone else’s products, that you just advertise and hope somebody somewhere buys something on so you can take a couple nickels of the sale.
Your stuff, your store.
When I get a […]

As ongoing readers of this blog may or may not know, I’m starting up a new piece/division/value stream/part of Premier, the company I’ve worked for over the past 11 years.
I knew this going in, but I know it now: starting up is not easy to do.
Vision, research, product development, marketing strategy, marketing collateral, communication strategy […]

PCs are cheaper, right? That’s why schools should buy them?
Hmmm …

The results from last year? IT service calls to the high school tripled from the year before. The IT office had to hire another full time tech and contract with an outside consultant to keep up with tech calls. After factoring in the cost of […]

Well, there goes a great partnership.
I watched the Stevenote in which Jobs announced the new iPod Nano yesterday. And saw what I hadn’t heard earlier: that Harry Potter is on iTunes. J.K. Rowling is putting her annoyingly adolescent but immensely popular books on the iTunes music store in audiobook format.
Hmmm. Guess who has been a […]