If everything is important, then nothing is. ~ Patrick Lencioni
Homeless: Merely Hardware for Wifi Hotspots?
I have to admit this is an intriguing idea. Equip individuals living on the streets in Austin, to earn income from attendees at SXSW.
Outside the conference are 13 individuals who call the streets home. They are offering WiFi on the spot and providing a “personal router” for a small fee.
The response has been varied and significant. You can read to rest here via Time Newsfeed. You can find further discussion at Wired.
What you do you think? Novel idea or downright inappropriate?
Better Than Anyone Else
Apple succeeds and has devoted followers. A recent interview with Jonathan Ive in the London Evening Standard shed some light on Apple’s motivation and their discipline to continually do something “better.”
Q: What are your goals when setting out to build a new product?
A: Our goals are very simple – to design and make better products. If we can’t make something that is better, we won’t do it.
Q: Why has Apple’s competition struggled to do that?
A: That’s quite unusual, most of our competitors are interesting in doing something different, or want to appear new – I think those are completely the wrong goals. A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us – a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better.
What were you created to do better than anyone else? What differentiates your non-profit from another? Don’t worry about doing something doing something “different.” Get on with it and “do it better.”
iTether: You Can’t Stop Innovation
The original iTether app was blocked from the Apple app store soon after launch, but it’s back. This time it’s an HTML5 app.
iTether instead can be employed as a surrogate modem by connecting the iPhone (or iPad) to an ad-hoc Wi-Fi connection with the PC and using a client program on that machine to log into the iTether website and use the feature. [via GIZMODO] Continue Reading…
Global Citizens & Leaders of Influence
A recent Harvard Business Review article argues aspiring leaders are more effective as “global citizens.” Leaders with an understanding of other cultures and cross-cultural experience are able to collaborate anywhere in the world and are able to work with diverse groups of people. The article states, Continue Reading…
Cross Pollination and “The Elastic Enterprise”
You know times have changed when you are Skype conferencing with a gifted group of leaders about “a manifesto for business revolution” and how the principles apply to the non-profit world, while referencing not page numbers in the book, but “location” of the content on the Kindle iPad app….while the discussion in the book revolves around Apple’s culture and salient leadership. Good bye page numbers…hello referencing “locations” in digital media.
My Next Job: Chief Experience Officer
I wonder when these positions will make it to the nonprofit sector:)
Check it out…..I wonder if the next job you hunt for will be focused on understanding human connections. Experience is the next frontier.
As antithetical as it may seem in a hyper-digital world, experience-how we interact in the physical world-is the biggest buzzword in marketing today. Here’s how smart companies are considering customer experience when they look to the future.
Read the full article from Fast Company here.
$3.5 million violin. A famous musician. Beauty missed.
This is a couple of years old but fascinating none the less.
One of the nation’s greatest musicians. A $3.5 million violin. A mass of DC commuters. No one perceived the beauty around them.
Ever hearing, but never listening. Ever seeing, but never perceiving. I wonder what beauty exists all around us on a daily basis but we never embrace. What are we so busy chasing…..we don’t see the reality of what is right in front of us.
Check out the experiment the Washington Post did with Joshua Bell a famous violinist in 2007 when right before 8am they put him in a busy DC foot traffic area. In 43 minutes, 1,097 passed by and no one realized what was right in front of them. Find the full article here.
