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[ via pr-squared.com ]
Many companies claim to be innovative, but few can claim innovation as their raison d’être. One such company though is IDEO—a designer of products, services, and experiences ranging from Apple’s first mass-market computer mouse to aspects of Prada’s store in New York City to the patient-care delivery model at SSM DePaul Health Center, in St. Louis, Missouri.
IDEO’s single-minded focus makes it a good case study for those seeking insights on innovation. Yet as CEO Tim Brown is quick to point out in McKinsley Quarterly, what works at IDEO won’t work everywhere.
Regardless of your political persuasion, you must admit that Barack Obama is one of the most radical management innovators in the world today. His team built something world-changing: a new kind of political organization. Obama's presidential bid succeeded, in other words, through the power of new DNA: new rules for new kinds of institutions.
For the full story from Harvard Business Publishing, click here.
The weekly radio address that every president has done since FDR will be videotaped and put onto YouTube. These “fireside chats” were started by FDR during the depression as a way to reassure Americans that everything was going to be all right.
The Presidential radio address (which will still be broadcast over the radio) is usually only about four minutes long, a perfect length for YouTube. The videos will be posted on Obama's Change.Gov web site, as well as its dedicated YouTube channel.
[ via TechCrunch ]
“If anything goes bad, I did it.
If anything goes semi-good, we did it.
If anything goes really good, then you did it.
That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”
~ Bear Bryant
OK, if we in the association world can't put on a killer conference, who can? So get to work.
My Twitter friend, Mitch Joel, created what he calls the Pixelated Conference: a business conference you can watch at your desk (or from home on the weekend). He stole the idea from Future Now.
Since turnabout generally equals fair play, Chris Brogan then stole the idea from Mitch. And he wants you to steal it from him...
Here are the steps:
The only thing better than books is FREE books - and Chris Brogan has rounded up 20 free e-books for us all to peruse. (In all cases, the first link is to a PDF file, the second link is to the site where it’s hosted.)
Bizzwords covers "the emerging vocabulary" of the business world - the buzzwords of business you need to know to be in the know on the cube farm.
Chainsaw consultant - an outside consultant brought in to fire employees
Brightsizing - downsizing by laying off the brightest workers
Layoff lust - the desire to be fired from one's job
to Nasdaq - to sharply decline in value or quantity
bozo explosion - a rapid increase of incompetent employees at a particular company
mucus trooper - an employee with a cold or the flu who insists on showing up for work
prairie-dogging - the sudden appearance of people's heads over the top of the cubicle walls when something interesting or noisy happens
jetiquette - the flyers' code of polite behavior
clickstream - the virtual path a person takes while surfing the Web
Zen mail - an e-mail message without text or attachments
Dorito syndrome - dissatisfaction felt after wasting time surfing the Net and accomplishing nothing
ohnosecond - the little bit of time it takes you to realize that you've just made a huge mistake
The ABC Evening News recently aired a segment on companies using Twitter to handle customer service issues (in response to long hold times on phones). Comcast, which handles customer service issues on Twitter too, was spotlighted in the piece. But it clarified for me exactly why I have not jumped on the Twitter bandwagon for the association.
I had considered using Twitter to push advocacy updates to members' mobile phones during our legislative session but had hesitations because of Twitter's excessive downtime. My fear is that most members (the majority of which have never used Twitter) would not be able to understand the difference between Twitter's "downtime" and the association's. So if I, as a member, miss an important advocacy update because Twitter is down, I don't think, "Twitter is down. What a bummer." I think "My association let me down. I missed an important advocacy update."
But I'm thankful for Twitter's downtime really, because it has made me examine all of the "free" third-party apps that I jumped at quickly because they were "free." And free is good.
But it has made me examine a little further: What cost free-dom?
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking."
~ Steve Jobs
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