Autocorrect for life I used to joke that life should have an undo button, the ultimate Control-Z for when something goes wrong. But lately, I’ve been more of the mind that life should work like an Apple device with a good Autocorrect function. Why just undo things when they can be fixed in the blink of an eye, before anyone even knows they went wrong? Press reply-all when you are bcc’d on an email because you forgot to look at the header closely enough? No problem, Autocorrect for Life(AFL) will change it to a simple reply. Fender bender while parallel parking? AFL is there to save the day and fit your car perfectly into the spot and right up against…
Archives / November, 2014
Book Short: Continuing to make “sustainability” a mainstream business topic
Book Short: Continuing to make “sustainability” a mainstream business topic The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World, by my friend Andrew Winston, is a great book. It just got awarded one of the Top 10 business books of 2014 by Strategy+Business, which is a great honor. Andrew builds nicely on his first book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (post, book link) (and second book, which I didn’t review, Green Recovery), as I said in my review of Green to Gold, to bring: the theoretical and scientific to the practical and treat sustainability as the corporate world must treat it in order…
Sources of Urgency
Sources of Urgency Sometimes I wish we were in the hardware business. Why? It’s not the margins, that’s for sure. It’s because hardware businesses usually have externally-imposed deadlines that create urgency in an organization around deliverables. If you are making a chip that Dell is putting in all of its boxes, and your contract with Dell stipulates that the chip will be ready for testing on X Date and for shipping on Y Date, you darn well better hit the deadline. If you are making software that gets installed or pre-loaded on all Samsung TVs, same thing. Maybe it’s not the hardware business per se, but you certainly don’t see this kind of mentality in SaaS businesses very often, either…