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Agile neither fears nor worships failure. For some time, I’ve been noticing a trend. At conferences, in business schools, in business books and “business cartoons”: a trend that trivializes failure. The alarming equation I see set forth everywhere is: This newfound glorification of failure triggers the same mixture of alarm and sadness from another earlier…
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Seth Godin – marketer, author, entrepreneur, and blogger – spends his time considering the marketing of ideas in the digital age. In this highly entertaining TED-Talk, Godin takes a look at what it means for something to be “broken”. He clearly identifies 7 of the common reasons they may be that way and goes on…
The Economist reports on a new book that points out the big role governments play in creating innovative businesses. Economists have long recognised that the state has a role in promoting innovation, in any case. At its best, the newly coined entrepreneurial state is nothing less than the ultimate Schumpeterian innovator – generating the gales of…
The auto company that has the best profit margin in the industry, Subaru, is now running into problems concerning their ability to keep up with demand. The company can barely make enough cars to meet demand and quite frankly, couldn’t be less suited to handle a sales surge. The real problem lies in the juxtaposition, that expanding…
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Behavioral economist Daniel Goldstein studies how we make decisions about our financial selves — both now and in the future. In this TED-Talk, Goldstein highlights the fact that every decision we make on a daily basis either bodes positively or negatively for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) This, he…
Topic: Antlerboy and JP welcome the first-ever, all male and exclusively British guest roster. It’s a veritible sausage fest, except its more like Bangers. Come give a listen as we mash it up (see what I did there?). The episode starts with Antlerboy not being his usual joyful self, some would say “hacked-off”, “fed up”, or…
