Independent Thinking Blog
Independent Thinking Blog
Firing the Smart Way
No one wants to be fired, but the consequences of staying in a bad job, including loss of confidence, inertia, and fear, are worse. So why do most bosses do such a lousy job of severing ties? All that does is make an unhappy employee even more unhappy. And...
Starting a Business: Step 3
To do business, you need to know who you want to do business with. Chances are you have some idea about the organizations you think are a good fit. This is likely to change as you hone your value proposition--but having that first list of prospects offers comfort that...
Data Mining for Votes
There's an interesting piece by Mike Madden on Salon.com about the Obama team's sophisticated data mining operation. In the age of cookies and dashboards, it's a smart bet that lots of people can recite a lot of data about you. But it's the smart organizations...
Business Development in a Web 2.0 World
My Independent Thinking column on business development Web 2.0 is out: It's a Web 2.0 world. Just this week there have been articles in my local newspaper about start-up news aggregator Mixx honing in on Digg's space, and Google's efforts to enter the social...
Is Google Making Us Smarter?
Thought-provoking piece by Diane Coutu in the Harvard Business Review editors' blog on how Google may help make us smarter. She also links to some of the earlier discussion on the topic of Google, multitasking, and how we think and learn.