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In October last year, I sketched out a concept for an open-source board game that I tentatively titled “Brandhood” (I think I’d now want to call it just “Cloudworker”). The idea was picked up by t...
There is such a thing as a single, powerful litmus test of management and leadership ability. It is your handling of succession. As I read
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Today, January 7th, was a brutal bitch of a day, and it was a great day. Every grim reality of the cloudworker lifestyle, the dark side of everything from mobility and laptops to eating on the run...
Yesterday I got this gentle complaint from a friend and reader, “It’s great that your cloudworker stuff is getting picked up. I’m afraid it may tear you away from your non-business interests though...
I wrote 80 articles in 2008, and this post contains an annotated list of links to all of them. I am also running a quickie contest to find out what people like: simply use the Email This Post link...
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The easiest way to predict the future, as Alan Kay said, is to invent it. Some friends of mine, over at a stealth design/innovation startup called
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