When i was attending Le Web in Paris in December 2009, i attended one of the Google sessions. To the question “what is your roadmap”, the Google speaker answered: “As you probably know we do not use any roadmaps anymore” Just last week, i found this interesting blog from Don Dodge on how [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Google’s 90 days planning
Posted in Corporate Values, Innotribe, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Worldviews on January 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Broken Foot
Posted in Books, Leading by Being on January 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
From the top of my broken mind to the bottom of my foot ! Yesterday i fell over a wet spot in the company’s parking garage. I could immediately see it was serious. My right foot was hanging loose in an angle of 90° ! Ambulance, hospital, x-rays, etc Result: triple fraction of ankle, shinbone, [...]
Broken Will
Posted in Books, Education, Identity, Leading by Being, Personal Values on January 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Good morning, Vietnam ! Bad start of the day. Have a terrible cold. Did not sleep well. Outside; it’s 1°C, windy, humid, and dark. Again, i woke up angry. Was thinking about my previous post “Emotional Zombies”, where i wrote about Open Mind, Open Heart, and Open Will. Open Mind, Heart, Will is based on [...]
Body Part Maker
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Education, Generation-M, Innovation, Personal Values, Think Tank, Worldviews on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the current economic climate, one restructuring follows the other. In my country there are some notable examples like AB Inbev, Opel (GM) Antwerp, HP, etc. At the time of writing this post, the counter of lost jobs in Belgium since January 2009 stood at 38,296 lost jobs And this is “only” [...]
Cubicle 3B23: Our company is infected !
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Cubicle 3B23, Generation-M, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values on January 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This week, our small innovation team got the opportunity to design and animate the department’s “All Hands”. In stead of doing the boring “we-tell-you-and-you-listen death by PowerPoint” session, we split the group in 8 break-out sessions. Each team was randomly selected, and the managers were NOT allowed to lead the discussion. Each team had 45 [...]
Web Evolution: The network is the database
Posted in Cloud, Semantic Web, Think Tank, WebTrends on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to have a really good 23 slide summary of where the web is heading, check out Nova Spivack’s Web Evolution slide deck. Web Evolution Nova Spivack Twine View more presentations from Nova Spivack. There are some really good positioning slides as from slide #9 and following, to get a feel for the [...]
If you can’t manage, measure
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Education, Leading by Being, Lean on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was just reading my Sunday newspaper online, and found this great summary by Gilbert Roox about Matthew Stewart’s book “The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong” The article is in Dutch, so i decided to use Google Chrome’s Translation extension. So, here are some translated extracts, SLIGHTLY edited as the Google [...]
Ethical Re-boot
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Cubicle 3B23, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Worldviews on January 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
UPDATE: Cool ! It seems that my site has been blocked from Myanmar 2 hours after posting this article. Now i really feel what freedom of speech means. UPDATE-2: added some other interesting links at the end of this post. I fully agree with Robert Scoble that Google’s threat to withdraw from China is a [...]
Cubicle 3B23: message from Cubicle 3B21
Posted in Cubicle 3B23, Leading by Being, Worldviews on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On the previous post Cubicle 3B23, I got a comment that i really want to give more visibility on the front-page. Here it goes: Cubicle 3B21 is just across the corridor from 3B23; when both doors are open, we could see each other and talk (a bit loudly and to the annoyance of our [...]
Idea Killer #30
Posted in Corporate Values, Innovation, Lean, Personal Values on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At the end of my post “How real is your innovation”, i added a list of 29 typical idea killers that should be eradicated from a company culture claiming to be innovative. A couple of days ago, i came across #30: “And what are your metrics ?” Those Idea Killers really cut-out the [...]
