Newsletter of December 20, 2010
The wonders of suckiness
Hi there!
You don't want to miss this wonderful,
funny seven minute video on "the
wonders of suckiness" by Chris Flink
of IDEO. It's actually about how
your most irritating
experiences-the
ones that really suck-are really huge
opportunities for innovation. This
should be good news for the reinvention
of management, because if there is one
thing about traditional management,
it really sucks! Read about, and watch,
it
here.
I did a book review of
Umair Haque's new
book,
The New
Capitalist Manifesto:
Building a
Disruptively Better Business.
My conclusion: It's a brave, profound, witty
and brilliant book. A must read! Get
it
here.
Boredom had a big week.
(Is it the holiday
season?) A nice
post
from Umair Haque
who urges us to "stop being boring. Start
being interesting." And my post on the role
of storytelling in accomplishing just that.
Read it
here.
Great review by Dave Moran
of my book,
The
Leader's Guide to
Radical Management
He comes at it from the perspective of
an Agile software developer and concludes:
"the book you give your managers." Read
it
here.
"Our Dickensian economy: Has our country
become mean-spirited?" was
the question
posed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. My
reply is: not really. That's the result, not
the cause. The
real story is that the
economy has become unproductive.
Read it
here.
Surprise! President Obama did not use
my proposed opening remarks for the
CEO Summit on Wednesday. Instead
he offered a tame, generic plea for more of
the same. Ugh! A lost opportunity!
Read it
here.
Also in the series on the most beautiful
blog, building, fonts and so on:
the
most beautiful gift in the world.
Only
partly tongue in cheek,
here.
And facebook photos of last
Wedneday's lively KMI event
here.
Hoping our paths cross soon.
Warmly
Steve
PS Don't forget to register for my webcast on
reinventing management on January 11.
Get the details
here.
.