Posts tagged with Business
The Great Man Theory
The Great Man Theory of Leadership posits that there's a set of inherent traits in great leaders that allow them to rise above others and are therefore subjects of admiration: The great man theory of leadership states that…
Disrupting Twitter
My routine for writing blog posts here has 3 steps: 1. Capturing stray thoughts in a drafts folder in Typora with ideas in the shower or during my commute, 2. Develop those ideas into actual posts, collecting the finished blog…
Car Software as a Service
Tesla made a name for itself, not only by pushing for electric vehicles much harder than other manufacturers at the time, but upending the traditional processes around car ownership: bypassing the dealership model to sell directly to customers; no price…
Evolving the User Interface to the Software Business
For a little while, it seemed inevitable that desktop apps—well, programs , as they were previously known—would all migrate to be web apps, destined to run as tabs in a browser window. In many ways the architecture of the…
Values to Make Decisions
Quick, what are your core values? How about the values of your discipline, your company, your industry? Your…family[1]? If you can actually answer these questions without stopping in your tracks and making the thinking-emoji face 🤔, then you'…
Strategic Lack of Originality
I was chatting with the CEO of an up-and-coming startup a few months back. I forget the exact context, but on the topic of how much an executive should innovate, they had a powerful operating philosophy: each team has a…
