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Matthew Childs’ 9 life lessons from rock climbing (via...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:33:00 -0500

Matthew Childs’ 9 life lessons from rock climbing (via TEDtalksDirector)

"Something happens when you have other bodies in the room. Somehow you are within an energy field of..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:08:47 -0500

“Something happens when you have other bodies in the room. Somehow you are within an energy field of focus that influences you. I can say the same is true regarding innovation and ideation. It is refreshing to be able to check in with someone regarding an idea or direction.”

- The Future of Work Is Shared | Fast Company

My fascination with letterpress & presses continues -...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:35:00 -0500

My fascination with letterpress & presses continues - Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type

Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month | Royal...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:15:55 -0500

Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month | Royal Pingdom (via fred-wilson)

"..successful telecommuting strategy involves more than just packing up an employee’s stuff and..."

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:06:04 -0500

“..successful telecommuting strategy involves more than just packing up an employee’s stuff and sending him home. New teleworkers may need to go through training on technical things — like how to use remote software — and on lifestyle issues, like balancing work and family.”

- For Telecommuters, It’s Not About Going To Work : NPR

Office Parks Are Worse Than Suburban Sprawl - GOOD Blog

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:27:00 -0500

Office Parks Are Worse Than Suburban Sprawl - GOOD Blog:

…500-foot driveways do not reduce rents in any obvious respect. Moreover, the suburban office park in its current form creates harmful externalities, by forcing people to drive to reach them even if they live nearby (thus increasing pollution and traffic congestion).

A stunning video demonstrating the letterpress process -...

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:55:06 -0500

A stunning video demonstrating the letterpress process - Letterpress Coasters on Vimeo (via @syddesign)

"The terms “customer driven” and “solutions” seem to be in every manager’s lexicon. But as Professor..."

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:35:27 -0500

“The terms “customer driven” and “solutions” seem to be in every manager’s lexicon. But as Professor Gulati notes, “it’s an execution problem.” Companies, he says, “aren’t generally structured to access, absorb or utilize customer insights since they are organized by product, not by customer.””

- Prototype - Seeing Customers as Partners in Innovation - NYTimes.com

Amway employees work at a company cafe in Taipei, July 31, 2009....

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:05:17 -0500

Amway employees work at a company cafe in Taipei, July 31, 2009. Increasingly, corporations are providing employees with alternative work environments, or “agile” space, which evolved from the dot com revolution and describes how software designers sit at tables facing one another with their computers in order to collaborate. - Large, international corporations are doing away with cubicles. How will the shift affect workers and the quality of their work? - Opinion: On the death of the cubicle

Top 5 Startup Tips from Jay-Z « The Metric System

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:59 -0500

Top 5 Startup Tips from Jay-Z « The Metric System:

A fun post of business tips pulled from the lyrics of various across Jay-Z’s catalog.

Seen a lot of these around before, but some are new and...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:43:09 -0500

Seen a lot of these around before, but some are new and extremely awesome - 10 Amazing Office Designs Around the World

Fallingwater® | Hard to Find Items | LEGO Shop

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:41:48 -0500

Fallingwater® | Hard to Find Items | LEGO Shop

"Just 15 percent of the small- and medium sized businesses we spoke with utilize a traditional office..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:34:00 -0500

“Just 15 percent of the small- and medium sized businesses we spoke with utilize a traditional office model, where employees work from one central physical location. And 45 percent of survey respondents – including those traditionalists – spend more than three-quarters of their time conducting business out of the office.”

- Is the traditional office becoming extinct? | TechOat.com - I don’t think we’ll see all offices disappear at all, people need to be around other people, and everyone needs a home-base to touch down in. The day of being forced into one office for certain set hours is continuing to be pushed out to more nomadic styles of work during “available” hours.

Anyone that’s looking to spend a little extra on me for...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:23:00 -0500

Anyone that’s looking to spend a little extra on me for Xmas - Eames Lounge (via Sit4Less.com)

ReadItFor.me

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:22:18 -0500

ReadItFor.me:

Came across this tonight. It’s a great site that weekly takes a business book, summarizes it and posts a video overview. Genius!

Customer who?

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:14:11 -0500

I’m continually blown away by the amount of companies out there both big and small, old and new that don’t talk with their customers, users or readers. Companies who make important business decisions based upon a whim with little more background than “well we think they’re going to approach us like this”. Guessing isn’t a strategy. Like it or not business today is about delivering the best product for the lowest price with the best customer service right away. How do you guess your way into any of those four criteria?

"I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best food in the world. And..."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:51:59 -0500

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I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best food in the world. And if in doing so, more people come to our corner and want stuff, then heaven help me figure out how to meet the need without compromising the integrity.

As soon as you grasp for that growth, you’re gonna view your customer differently, you’re gonna view your product differently, you’re gonna view your business differently. Everything that is the most important – you’re going to view that differently.

”

- Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms owner via 37signals - We just watched Food Inc. the other day. A great flick if you want to start thinking about where your food comes from and Joel was amazing to listen & watch. His farm seems awesome and I hope there’s more and more farmers out there doing as he is.

Startup Ecosystems Take Time

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:05:53 -0500

Startup Ecosystems Take Time:

A great post regarding the long process a region goes through in order to become a “startup friendly” area. I think West Michigan is in that first decade step of trying to find some success stories in order to build experience and talent.

The area has a great historic entrepreneurial history. The problem is that most of it’s is over half century old and may no longer be “relevant” to modern start ups. We’re really in the process now of redeveloping all of those assets that are crucial to startups, while realizing it just takes time.

"…the most irritating thing of all about management gurus: that their failures only serve to..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:21:49 -0500

“…the most irritating thing of all about management gurus: that their failures only serve to stoke demand for their services.”

- The three habits… | The Economist

this has been sitting in its paper form in our living room all...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:55 -0500

this has been sitting in its paper form in our living room all week. so great and so true (via fred-wilson)