Snarkmarket: The Starbucks API. This is brilliant insight. Just brilliant. If there’s a post like this in every 20 or 50, this blog is worth reading. The deep message here is about core competencies (I just saw a reference to an article about companies outsourcing their core competency — have to find it and will…
As my grandmother said, a man with two watches never knows what time it is. That’s not to be confused with “even a broken clock is right twice a day.” (I just realized that maybe Grandma had some fixation on timepieces….)
Gina Trapani, formerly of Lifehacker, recently posted this picture and the accompanying text. It’s a short set of rules that are, in effect, a simple team SOP (standard operating procedure). With even a small set of agreements about how they will operate, expectations and execution will more closely match up. When these rules are known…
This recent Seth Godin post was another timely suggestion from Seth. (My probable #1 reason for subscribing to his blog is that he seems to really have a finger on the pulse of what is going on, with timely, succinct, no-fluff posts on issues that are popping up for me in the days right before…