Employee happiness and productivity is linked to trust—and enforcing hours shows exactly the opposite.
So very true.
Business Model Canvas Explained (by businessmodeltv)
A 2-minute overview of the Business Model Canvas, a tool for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. This method from the bestselling management book Business Model Generation is applied in leading organizations and start-ups worldwide.
Looks helpful in understanding the business model, er, canvas. Nifty explanatory animation to boot. Takes me back to my Punch Sulzberger Leadership Program experience.
More at Business Model Generation and Wikipedia.
Creativity cannot explode if you do not have the ability to step back, take in what everybody else says and then fuse it with your own ideas.
Wise.
We must use the arts as a tool to make people live better and to think about their situation, to think about the human condition, about what they can do for others around them, for themselves.
Also wise.
Instead of inventing a new business model, media companies keep trying to tweak the old one. By that I mean they keep trying to invent new kinds of advertising. It’s a pointless exercise. They’re like blacksmiths who are responding to Henry Ford and his automobile by trying to create a better horseshoe.
These three areas together make a star UX professional: UX craft, relevant expert knowledge and skillful communication.
The trilogy applicable across industries: expertise in craft, knowledge & communication. It’s also a big part of the evolution of one’s career.
Know the user, and know you’re not the user.
Simple and clear… but a required reminder.
More words to live (and act) by:
It is vastly more useful to create something for lots of people that can be used over and over again. When you can either create products that sell again, or you can sell your own time, always choose the former.
And…
Always know whether at that moment you’re learning or earning. If you’re learning, then it’s worth it. If you’re not, you better be earning (e.g. being a founder, being a share holder). Otherwise you’re just wasting time.
In order to prescribe policies that really allow female workers to “lean in” at work, social scientists are trying to find ones that recast social norms and encourage male workers to “lean in” at home.
Leaning both ways will create an equilibrium. Makes sense.
This might not sound like such a big deal, but social scientists are coming around to the notion that a man spending a few weeks at home with his newborn can help recast expectations and gender roles, at work and home, for a long time.
And personal satifaction.
Double by Double Robotics - (by Double Robotics)
With all this talk about working remotely or in the office, here’s a different way to “look” at it.
Now if this thing comes up behind me and starts asking for my TPS report, I’m just gonna have to kick its screen in with my boot.
More on doublerobotics.com.
We manage the company at the top and just have one P&L, and don’t worry about the iCloud team making money and the Siri team making money. We want to have a great customer experience, and we think measuring all these things at that level would never achieve such a thing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook on their one P&L
… three professional negotiators walk us through techniques that members of Congress may be using right now. They explain these techniques not with textbooks, but with examples from their everyday lives.
From BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) to Disarming Empathy… some great business and management lessons. Thanks again Planet Money!
