Archive for the 'Crossroads' Tag

Over at TED is a talk from 2005 by Clay Shirky about Institutions vs. collaboration. It is a very interesting talk about how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks. Clay talks about institutions compared to collaboration, like Microsoft versus Linux. He shows the graphs behind the 80-20 rule, few contribute a [...]

Coaching is often about change, a new career, better balance in life or adding something new to “spice up” life. And in those contexts we often talk about finding ones passion and following ones passion.
Mike over at ZenDonut has a really interesting post about 3 Steps To Develop Your Passion … Not Just “Find” It.
I [...]

Jonathan Mead has a very interesting post over at PickTheBrain about Why Do We Avoid Doing What We Love?.
If we know what makes us feel alive, why do we resist it? Why do we avoid doing what we love to do?
There are some important lessons in here:
Failure is fundamental to the creative process. If you [...]

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is written by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckström. It is a very interesting book that compare two different kind of organizations but also mentions a hybrid or combo version, best of both.
Spiders are centralized, command and control, organizations. Historical examples are the Spanish army, [...]

Maki at DoshDosh usually blogs about making money online but in The Value of Being Incomplete: What Are Your Goals for 2008? he talks about setting goals.
Goals can be useful but you mustn’t depend on them to define yourself. We are taught that if you don’t have an aim in life, you’ll end up nowhere. [...]

A friend pointed me to this article at Business Week: Turning Business Education on its Head. It is about a really interesting concept called 180°academy, I quote the start of the article:
In September about 20 executives, mostly from Scandinavia, hopped on a plane for a trip designed to shatter their notions of how to do [...]

March 14 I was at Midzone for the opening of an art exhibition. It was also the launch of Konstzonen (Artzone) which is a gallery in the office. The artist is Anders Adèrn from Malmö.
I like this concept, mixing business and art. This is an intersection that is good for creativity.

BBC News has an article titled Dream commuters cross borders. That is a very suitable distraction today when we in southern Sweden have strong wind, snow and icy roads.
It says that Britain’s commuters have the worst deal in all of Europe. They spend longer in their cars and trains than anyone else. But now there’s [...]

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the [...]

I found a very interesting document over at ChangeThis, Lessons from a Starfish World written by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom.
Summary:
Such seemingly dissimilar groups as the Apache Indians, music swapping programs, Wikipedia, Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Queda have one thing in common: they are all starfish. According to Brafman and Beckstrom, each of these resilient [...]

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