Archive for July, 2006
Strong opinions, which are weakly held
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006From Bob Sutton, author of some of my favourite business books comes this:
been pretty obsessed about the difference between smart people and wise people for years. I tried to write a book called “The Attitude of Wisdom” a couple times. And the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act [...]
Use your mobile phone as an inconspicuous dictaphone
Monday, July 3rd, 2006I have always loved the idea of having dictaphone to capture those thoughts, tasks and plans that occur to one whilst out and about.
The problem I discovered soon after I bought one was that in public I felt like a dingbat talking into my little device.
I now use my mobile phone as a dictaphone and [...]
The eight errors common to organizational change efforts
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006Over at Can-O-Worms, Jason lists Kotter’s 8 common errors to organisational change efforts.
Brian Jonson on Hayek’s discovery process
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006From “Note to self on Hayek’s discovery process“
Alright. I’m working on our conscious capitalism stuff. Mackey’s blog inspired me to study Hayek (whose stuff I’ve had on my shelf for a couple years), Mises and others. (Lots of reading to do.)
For now, I’m basically using this forum to capture some thoughts on the “Hayekian discovery [...]