Don’t let your impatience to innovate the future blind you to the present. “Attending to the present pays dividends in two crucial ways,” says says Dr. Jeanne Liedtka, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. “First, it helps broaden, and perhaps even change completely, our definition of the…
There’s a classic scene in the movie Dumb & Dumber where our two heroes chose unusual tuxedos. The joke there was they stuck out like two sore thumbs. But what if you want to, or have to, stick out from the crowd? It’s long been the norm at conventions to have attractive women in tight…
Google is shutting down its first social network Orkut tomorrow. To mark the event, Dublin-based video production company, One Productions, has drawn up this timeline of key events in Orkut’s 10 years on the internet.
This is the first in a series of posts (explained here) on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). I am blogging my way through it in preparation for my Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. A nifty eBook I call PMBOK Summarized collates all the posts. The next in the series is here. Initiating Process…
With two failed enterprises and debts to pay off, Jochen Lillich tried a period of corporate respectability. Much of it was good, but the entrepreneurial urge was tough to bury. Now working on his third, and ultimately successful, business, Lillich is philosophical about the path he found himself on. Quoting the famous, American pop painter,…
There is more to exporting that just slapping up a German, French or Chinese version of your website. What sounds like a lovely recipe to an Irish audience, for example, could turn French stomachs, said Ross O’Loughlin of Translations.com. And direct translations of marketing blurb by non-native speakers can have hilarious consequences, he said.…
Emotions can cloud decisions and interfere with rational thought around personal finances.
Innochat is a weekly Twitter conversation on various topics surrounding innovation. It takes place at noon, Eastern Standard Time, or 5pm GMT, and lasts for an hour. A framing post is usually published on the Innochat website before the talk, and a (large) transcript is made available afterwards. That should be read in reverse chronological…