SIMPLE TRUTH
The things we make should either reduce pain, increase pleasure, or do some mix of the two.
REBLOG #1 - MARK SUSTER - CAREER ESSENTIALS
What you should pay attention to in your early days on a job - and thereafter
I made this blog to reflect on strategic and productivity topics and share them with an interested audience.
But from time to time I come across blog posts where I think that this is so full of advice and insight that you also might take something away from it. Hence I decided to reblog the best posts I have read from time to time. . . .
COMPETITION BLINDNESS
Do you care who is there?
OBSERVATION:
Do me a favor - count the number of all your colleagues doing operational work. Then count your colleagues doing management work. And now count the colleagues whose primary focus is to observe and analyse your competition - solely.
If you have counted more than 0 colleagues for competition observation you are an . . .
ACTIVE DISRUPTION
How to be your hardest competitor - yourself
A) Observation
It became modern to define the targets of an organisation not product but purpose related. So a car manufacturer defines itself no longer as a company to develop the best car but as a company to best fulfill the transportation needs of a potential customer.
This also means a shift of perspective from a company . . .
