When people, usually analytical people, want to improve a situation, they tend to optimize efficiency: achieve maximum output for input. “Let’s reduce waste! Let’s simplify! Let’s make things smoother! Let’s try and get more out of the system!” I suppose the obsession with efficiency is explained in the Drucker quote: that efficiency is “doing... - http://betashop.com/post...
Do you actually enjoy doing your job? If you wake up an hour early in the morning, do you think, “Yay! I can go in early and get another hour of work in!” Or does that sound ridiculous to you? Are you learning? When was the last time you had to learn a new skill? Is this year kind of like last year, or are you doing something new, stretching... - http://betashop.com/post...
Anyone who bets against Silicon Valley is betting against a successful track record of 40 or 50 years. You’ve got the universities. You’ve also got a very, very effective venture-capital industry, which is very well honed and you have the creations of at least a biotech revolution and a high-tech revolution, and the possibilities of the green... - http://betashop.com/post...