Net Galley Challenge
Monday, June 1, 2015
The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work
"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them." - Andy Grove.
In "The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work" by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, you get to see what the crises can be and how your company size will change your reaction to it, what you can learn from it and how you can remember that to learn from failure as an individual and team.
With Edison and WD-40, we have learnt how taking more risks, we increase our chance of success. But to keep on going ahead like King Bruce, we have to know that we are not going to build that web the first time, learn and improvise from each attempt.
The Failure Value Cycle is about how to mine gold from your crash and burns. With its 7 step process, you create an environment where you accept the ubiquity of failure in a venture, prepare for it, be on the lookout for it, respond, avert and get back on track.
The authors have referred to the latest security debacles of great companies. After each chapter, there is a summary of what are the keypoints. There are questionnaires about how failure is treated in our organisation. There is an encouragement to show off not just your laurels but your albatrosses too.
The best I like are the 3 Rules of learning - from others, by play and thinking and by doing, 'What has to be true' exercise.
You are your worst competitor
In "The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work" by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, you get to see what the crises can be and how your company size will change your reaction to it, what you can learn from it and how you can remember that to learn from failure as an individual and team.
With Edison and WD-40, we have learnt how taking more risks, we increase our chance of success. But to keep on going ahead like King Bruce, we have to know that we are not going to build that web the first time, learn and improvise from each attempt.
The Failure Value Cycle is about how to mine gold from your crash and burns. With its 7 step process, you create an environment where you accept the ubiquity of failure in a venture, prepare for it, be on the lookout for it, respond, avert and get back on track.
The authors have referred to the latest security debacles of great companies. After each chapter, there is a summary of what are the keypoints. There are questionnaires about how failure is treated in our organisation. There is an encouragement to show off not just your laurels but your albatrosses too.
The best I like are the 3 Rules of learning - from others, by play and thinking and by doing, 'What has to be true' exercise.
You are your worst competitor
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Muddy rice and black sake
On reading following Bashos lines
I sit facing muddy sake
and black rice
I thought of the images of Muddy rice and black sake
"Avoid
Adjectives of scale,
, you will love the world more and desire it less.” - Rober Hass paraphrasing Basho.
I sit facing muddy sake
and black rice
I thought of the images of Muddy rice and black sake
"Avoid
Adjectives of scale,
, you will love the world more and desire it less.” - Rober Hass paraphrasing Basho.
Creativity
is like sugarcane
get the most out of it
by optimally recycling
it through the machine
use it like
an essential oil
a drop is enough
to get you
started
Dip in that inkwell
often but scantily
I started with thoughts become things rock inspiration with words become things in mind, but when I started writing it out, it took its own direction and became two things.
get the most out of it
by optimally recycling
it through the machine
use it like
an essential oil
a drop is enough
to get you
started
Dip in that inkwell
often but scantily
I started with thoughts become things rock inspiration with words become things in mind, but when I started writing it out, it took its own direction and became two things.
Leverage
1. employing experts. Steve jobs about hiring smart people
2. Integration instead of reinventing the wheel.
2. Integration instead of reinventing the wheel.
Starting with a word
solopreneur to slopreneur
entrepreneur to rentrepreneur
This is how
words can become things
By naming it
you can make it
At a Home Sales Office
A broken
message rock
"Thoug hts
becom e
Thin gs"
A child had chucked it
to the ground
not sure if
with thought
to break it
to see if it would break
to see if it would not break
to see if it will bounce like a ball
Rocks Message
I break
message rock
"Thoug hts
becom e
Thin gs"
A child had chucked it
to the ground
not sure if
with thought
to break it
to see if it would break
to see if it would not break
to see if it will bounce like a ball
Rocks Message
I break
What happened to my morning tea?
Why does coffee heated up in the microwave foam up when sugar is added
What is an Experiment?
It makes the effect
of the invisible atoms
visible
Invisible here is
to the human eye
California two-spot octopus
sees with its skin
Whats inaudible to us
is not to dogs
Animal dictionary
does not match ours
Is life's purpose a
unified dictionary?
In the dark
does it matter
what color the octopus is?
It all depends on the prey's
eyes
Can a blind person
now see with his skin
or a deaf person
through some other
mechanism than ears?
Biomimicry
until all living things
sense in the same way.
What is an Experiment?
It makes the effect
of the invisible atoms
visible
Invisible here is
to the human eye
California two-spot octopus
sees with its skin
Whats inaudible to us
is not to dogs
Animal dictionary
does not match ours
Is life's purpose a
unified dictionary?
In the dark
does it matter
what color the octopus is?
It all depends on the prey's
eyes
Can a blind person
now see with his skin
or a deaf person
through some other
mechanism than ears?
Biomimicry
until all living things
sense in the same way.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
As a foreign national, this book is a great way to learn how things come about in law in America. For example, the relay service adding to the phone surcharge bill, number of employees of a small business being changed to 50, so really small businesses dont go out of business trying to retrofit to ADA requirements.
I have lots of notes from the reading to refer to various acts example Decoder Circuitry Act.
The book's main premise is that its not just the activists with the demonstration that got about the ADA to happen, but the politicians and the staffers too had a great role. The book goes into great detail about people, their characteristics, background, their views towards disability, change of mind of those who were not ready for ADA, organizations that melded together for the final act.
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