Leadership Matters - Comparing Ballmer to Bezos and Lessons You Should Learn

Not far from each other, in the area around Seattle, are two striking contrasts in leadership.  They provide significant insight to what creates success today. Steve Ballmer leads Microsoft, America’s largest software company.  Unfortunately, the value of Microsoft has gone nowhere for 10 years.  Steve Ballmer has steadfastly defended the Windows and Office products, telling anyone who will listen that he is confident Windows will be part of computing’s future landscape.  Looking backward, he reminds people that Windows has...

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Understanding The Engine Of Innovation: 'The Idea Hunter'

Regular readers of this blog will know that the future of individuals, organizations, and indeed the entire economy, rests on a capacity for continuous innovation, for example, in my articles, Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In The USA, Understanding Apple: Five Myths About Steve Jobs and The Five Surprises of Radical Management. Innovation in turn...

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Become an Idea Hunter

Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer will teach you how to hunt ideas using four principles that are easily remembered with the acronym I-D-E-A, which the authors explain more concisely than I ever could.Principle 1: "Do I want to be interested, or merely interesting? All of us naturally want to be interesting, but in the Hunt for ideas, being Interested...

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How Stress Can Improve Your Performance

Recently, I read an article in which a developmental psychologist cited a mountain of evidence showing that IQ was one of the most significant predictors of emotional resiliency in children. The same pattern has also long been seen in the military, where it has been conclusively shown that higher-IQ soldiers show fewer signs of long-term post-traumatic stress. Why would cognitive ability predict emotional hardiness? In truth, it doesn't. But the tests that measure cognitive ability do. When you tell people they have 12 minutes to show whether...

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Lean Startups Part 3: Most Changes Make Products Worse

Author: Steve Denning He is the author of six business books and consultant to organizations around the world on leadership, innovation, management and business narrative. His most recent book is the Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Other books include The Leader's...

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Lean Startups Pt 2: A Scientific Method For Creating Innovation

author: Steve Denning What is a lean startup? In essence, it’s innovating with a scientific mindset. Instead of blundering along, flying blind, proceeding by trial and error and not learning from the errors, investing huge amounts of time and money building things that no customer will ever buy, let alone be delighted by, it’s a scientific method for...

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Think You’re Communicating Enough? Think Again

Author: John Kotter Good communication is critical to making a big change take hold in any organization, especially in complex enterprises. Most managers and leaders recognize this, but it’s difficult to put into practice. Gaining an understanding of and commitment to a new direction is a challenging intellectual and emotional task. It unnerves people,...

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Something New In Innovation Part 1: Lean Startups

Author: Steve Denning There’s a lot of buzz in innovation circles about the lean startup movement, which is being hailed as the next really, really big new thing in innovation. Is this hype? Or is it really new?Cool presentation skillsI think it’s fair to say that some of the buzz about lean startups is due to the very funny and engaging storytelling of the leader of the startup movement, Eric Ries. His own experience as an entrepreneur helps give his talks the ring of authenticity. In a recent video, he laces his presentations with with provocative...

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The Most Profitable Small Businesses

I across an aticle and interested that is happen in America but I don't know it is met Cambodia in the century or not and let me show you: Remember the dotcom bubble? You know, that wacky window in the late ’90s when profitless technology companies scored billion-dollar valuations like bouquets on Valentine’s Day. This isn’t 1999, but the tech sector...

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Nine Bad Behaviors of Struggling Startup Founders

After working with dozens of startup founders, I’m still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem to be struggling, out-of-control, and fighting the latest crisis. I am more and more convinced that it is the right founder behavior that leads to success, rather than some exceptional intelligence or training. In that context, startup founders should carefully review the points made by Denny F. Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, in his recent book, aptly named “Managers,...

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Six Things Entrepreneurs Know That Are Dead Wrong

All true entrepreneurs operate off a set of tenets that are built into their psyche, or drilled into them from training and mentors. These are represented by sayings like “You never get anywhere unless you take a chance” and “Passion and persistence are the keys to success,” Unfortunately, there are still other old, reliable tenets that don’t work anymore. In a new book by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “Designing for Growth,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers. I assert that designers...

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Basic Concepts of Digital Microwave

Microwave is electromagnetic wave with frequency from 300MHz to 300GHz and it is a finite frequency band of the entire electromagnetic wave spectrum. According to the microwave transmission feature, microwave can be viewed as plane wave. Along the transmission direction, the plane wave has nolongitudinal components of electric field and magnetic field....

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ATM Machine in Cambodia

 Cambodia runs on US Dollars, thus the ATM machines dispense USD (although there are some where you can choose to have Khmer riels, but they are almost useless for tourists). US Dollar bills cannot have any marks, tears, or signs of wear. As for Khmer riels, they can be dirty and marked to the point you hardly recognize the value… Since 2005,...

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