Brilliant post…
Great ideas are not always epiphanies. It’s often entrepreneurs wanting to build something, sometimes anything. And something big emerges.
I've been talking a lot about three architectures: Business, Social, and Technical.
Most modernization efforts change Technical Architectures without giving a thought to Business and Social.
Capabilities may not change much, but the how does. And Spotify doesn't fix Social.
When traffic cones along a road in New Zealand began mysteriously moving around, the Transport Agency set up a CCTV to pin down the culprits
It turned out a Kea parrot moved them to get attention from humans & get fed
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To sell a piano, don’t tell them to buy one. Show them people enjoying a music parlor in their homes and make them want that. They will buy a piano of their own volition. That’s what Edward Bernays did in 1928 when he was inventing modern PR.
Sell not a thing, but emotion.
I find myself less and less interested in the parlor tricks and much more interested in the real as time goes on
Real people with real problems, real solutions
There’s a great deal of research that demonstrates the correlation between good leadership and good organizational performance: in fact, effective leadership is the number one predictor of positive results.
https://t.co/2Pba2KzlxW
People know me to be nice, but one of the biggest things I had to learn is to properly tune my response to things when knives came out
The key: be authoritative, not authoritarian, and not a pushover
Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
1/22
Today's Happiness List: made it to aqua-aerobics; took the dog down the beach, and it was sunny; saw a koala in a tree; and a tiny baby joey, not in a tree, being looked after by both parents; got stuff done that I really needed to do; hung out with Stinky the blue tongue skink
“The one thing First Nations people don't want is any white guilt on [the Voice referendum]. We want some serious, hard, systemic change. We want racism to stop in our nation. We want people's hearts and minds to change in this process.” — @teelareid
#TheDrum
@disruptandlearn @corp_rebels Loved it Lisa! Practical and clear. They aren’t easy conversations to have but i find I’m often feeling lighter afterwards.