Pioneer and founder of the independent music store CD Baby, Derek Sivers is always full of insights. He uses this video of a dancing guy to draws lessons on leadership and how to build a movement start by following rather than to lead. Continue reading “Leadership lessons from a dancing guy”
It’s the attention economy, stupid !
“in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it” Herbert Simon Continue reading “It’s the attention economy, stupid !”
How to execute great ideas
Making an idea successful is not a magic process.
Making an idea successful is a relentless trial and error process.
The best approach after coming up with an idea is to start executing it as soon as possible on a small scale and then refining it.
Steve Jobs methodology: decide what NOT to do
What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist. Continue reading “Steve Jobs methodology: decide what NOT to do”
Where do ideas come from ?
“we’d like to believe that our ideas come in flashes of insight, when really, they had been culminating over months and months; it was just a matter of the neural connections in our brains and lives reaching the optimum state of liquidity for the true idea to emerge.”
An inspiring TED talk (18 min video). Continue reading “Where do ideas come from ?”