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  • If you can’t manage, measure

    I was just reading my Sunday newspaper online, and found this great summary by Gilbert Roox about Matthew Stewart’s book “The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong” The article is in Dutch, so i decided to use Google Chrome’s Translation extension. So, here are some translated extracts, SLIGHTLY edited as the Google… Read more

  • Ethical Re-boot

    UPDATE: Cool ! It seems that my site has been blocked from Myanmar 2 hours after posting this article. Now i really feel what freedom of speech means. UPDATE-2: added some other interesting links at the end of this post. I fully agree with Robert Scoble that Google’s threat to withdraw from China is a… Read more

  • Cubicle 3B23: message from Cubicle 3B21

    On the previous post Cubicle 3B23, I got a comment that i really want to give more visibility on the front-page. Here it goes:   Cubicle 3B21 is just across the corridor from 3B23; when both doors are open, we could see each other and talk (a bit loudly and to the annoyance of our… Read more

  • Idea Killer #30

    At the end of my post “How real is your innovation”, i added a list of 29 typical idea killers that should be eradicated from a company culture claiming to be innovative. A couple of days ago, i came across #30:   “And what are your metrics ?”   Those Idea Killers really cut-out the… Read more

  • Love and Hate Relationships

      A good friend of mine commented on one of the blog post. It’s a comment that cuts deep. Knowing the person, i think it was quite a step to be this open on a public blog. So first of all, congrats for coming-out ! Here is the original comment: I have spent some time… Read more

  • How real is your Innovation ?

    I have been reading quite a lot on innovation lately. Books and blogs. But it looks to me that there is too much theory and too less practice. I have read about many ideas to organize innovation, to do scouting, idea management, incubation, internal/external challenges, brand recognition programs. Grand theories about innovation in the core… Read more