Archive for March 2009

the checklist is not enough

Our notions of what a job is are being challenged. In the past and because of the Industrial Revolution a job was about going to work and doing a checklist of things. It was about a transaction of time and actions in exchange for payment. If the work items got done and you were there [...]

Newspapers don’t care about the news

I wish they cared but they don’t.
I have a 12 foot target (porch) on my house and the delivery person can’t hit it! If newspapers really cared about the news they’d fix that. They don’t care about the news.
I quit the Star Tribune and they’ve likely spent more money calling me twice a week [...]

Personal Brand Startup Sketch

I had the privilege of facilitating a session at the unsummit held in Minneapolis yesterday. I used the presentation below as a way of getting at some key principles and ideas that are to my mind shifting the digital realities of connecting with people these days.
I am also building service called http://www.extendr.com which has guided [...]