Mitch Joel's Blog: Six Pixels of Separation, page 146
March 4, 2018
How To Fix The Future With Andrew Keen - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast
Episode #608 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Even when he takes a pop at me (which he does... and it's probably not all that lovingly), I really enjoy my conversations and debates with Andrew Keen. It used to be a lot easier to call him a contrarian to everything that was happening in Silicon Valley. After all, his bestselling books, The Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer earned him the dubious title of "the anti-Christ of Silicon Valley." His latest book, How To Fix The Future, is still controversial but it's more optimistic (if we do something with the contents of it) about how this might all play out. Sure, Andrew is happy to take a victory lap, by pointing out how right he was in his previous books... but here we are. How does technology our culture and digital media push forward with so much creative destruction and the problems that have arisen as we all connect? Andrew is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salon FutureCast and a public speaker. He is the host of Keen On show, a TechCrunch chat show, and was named one of the "100 Most Connected Men" in 2015 by GQ magazine. Enjoy the conversation...
You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #608.
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March 3, 2018
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #401
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, Pandemonio, and ResolveTO, Author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
The Evolution of Trust - Nicky Case . "I've been doing a lot of consulting work around legislation and making rules that stick. Turns out laws aren't nearly as effective as systems that reinforce the kind of behavior you want. But to get this right, you essentially need to find a way for two competitors to interact in a way that produces the best outcomes, and that means game theory. And--spoiler alert--gameplayers are jerks. This amazing animated journey through game theory and trust will probably dash any hopes you have of humans working things out. But you should still play it." (Alistair for Hugh).
Why are we teaching humans how to code and machines how to learn? - LS:N Global . "This is perhaps one of the most important questions in modern time, but we don't ask it enough. Algorithms get better at anything that can be scored and iterated--including most of what we teach in schools. At the same time, metacognition (thinking about thinking) is a critical skill, but most of the people who work in that field are applying their knowledge to better algorithms, not better students." (Alistair for Mitch).
'Black Panther' offers a regressive, neocolonial vision of Africa - The Washington Post . "What's not to like about the blackalicious new Marvel pic, Black Panther? Well, if you want your fun spoiled, here's something you should read." (Hugh for Alistair).
The Cute Robot That Follows You Around the City - The Atlantic . "A robot made by Vespa is a robot I want to spend time with." (Hugh for Mitch).
Slow Thought: a manifesto - Aeon . "When was the last time someone told you to slow down and take your time? Really. Think about it. Think about our current culture. Think about how we connect. Think about how we're always connected. Do you ever come home and have, literally, nothing to say to your partner because you have been connected and texting all day, even though you didn't see them? There are many cultural issues that are changing us human beings because of technology. One pillar of this technociety is getting things done faster and making better decisions because of technology (you know the whole ' one fast and break things' business). Well, what if we really need what this article is talking about? Slow thought. Before you answer, slow down, read this... and just think about it." (Mitch for Alistair).
Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm: How LittleThings went from social publishing darling to shutting down - DigiDay . "I wonder how people feel about this? Do you feel bad that a small publisher can't survive the Facebook algorithm? I do. On the other hand, if your business lives and dies on how Facebook works their own algorithm, this has to be a 'known known.' So... yeah... this sucks... but it was kind of inevitable, no?" (Mitch for Hugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.
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March 2, 2018
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #401
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, Pandemonio, and ResolveTO, Author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
The Evolution of Trust - Nicky Case . "I've been doing a lot of consulting work around legislation and making rules that stick. Turns out laws aren't nearly as effective as systems that reinforce the kind of behavior you want. But to get this right, you essentially need to find a way for two competitors to interact in a way that produces the best outcomes, and that means game theory. And--spoiler alert--gameplayers are jerks. This amazing animated journey through game theory and trust will probably dash any hopes you have of humans working things out. But you should still play it." (Alistair for Hugh).
Why are we teaching humans how to code and machines how to learn? - LS:N Global . "This is perhaps one of the most important questions in modern time, but we don't ask it enough. Algorithms get better at anything that can be scored and iterated--including most of what we teach in schools. At the same time, metacognition (thinking about thinking) is a critical skill, but most of the people who work in that field are applying their knowledge to better algorithms, not better students." (Alistair for Mitch).
'Black Panther' offers a regressive, neocolonial vision of Africa - The Washington Post . "What's not to like about the blackalicious new Marvel pic, Black Panther? Well, if you want your fun spoiled, here's something you should read." (Hugh for Alistair).
The Cute Robot That Follows You Around the City - The Atlantic . "A robot made by Vespa is a robot I want to spend time with." (Hugh for Mitch).
Slow Thought: a manifesto - Aeon . "When was the last time someone told you to slow down and take your time? Really. Think about it. Think about our current culture. Think about how we connect. Think about how we're always connected. Do you ever come home and have, literally, nothing to say to your partner because you have been connected and texting all day, even though you didn't see them? There are many cultural issues that are changing us human beings because of technology. One pillar of this technociety is getting things done faster and making better decisions because of technology (you know the whole ' one fast and break things' business). Well, what if we really need what this article is talking about? Slow thought. Before you answer, slow down, read this... and just think about it." (Mitch for Alistair).
Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm: How LittleThings went from social publishing darling to shutting down - DigiDay . "I wonder how people feel about this? Do you feel bad that a small publisher can't survive the Facebook algorithm? I do. On the other hand, if your business lives and dies on how Facebook works their own algorithm, this has to be a 'known known.' So... yeah... this sucks... but it was kind of inevitable, no?" (Mitch for Hugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.
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March 1, 2018
The Rise And Fall Of Thought Leaders, Gurus And Experts
Define "success." This could get ugly.
Recently, someone I would define as "successful" posted a warning about how many experts, gurus and "entrepreneurs" they have met over the years who are flat broke. This person did not share this as a criticism, but as a warning: Be careful whom you trust. They went on to discuss (and in the comments it was heavily debated) how someone's digital platform is rarely anything like their every day life (or, as I like to say: my Facebook profile is the person that I want the world to think that I am), how a lot of the advice given is often not applied and implemented to these "experts" own businesses, and how all of this should act as a sobering reality, warning and caution.
Who? Who are we talking about here?
My guess is that the vast majority of people you find on a "Top 100" list of digital marketers, online influencers, etc... are far from a place anyone would truly define as "successful." The problem, of course, is that defining "success" is not easy. It's not absolute. My definition of "success" is not yours. Success is a spectrum. What encompasses my definition of "success" may have no place in yours. All fair.
With that, here are some thoughts of how you could measure the success of an individual. Your mileage may vary, as Seth Godin likes to say...
Platform is not reality. Friends, followers, likes, shares and more can be bought and sold. Even if an individual did not pay to amplify their digital platform, don't confuse how many people they are connected to with an ability to run a successful business, and provide relevant and actionable information. Behind the scenes, I know countless "influencers" with hundreds of thousands of followers who haven't failed more times than they have succeeded, but rather have never succeeded in anything else but growing their own platform. Avinash Kaushik (Google's digital marketing evangelist and the author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0) calls this "vanity metrics." Don't fall for vanity metrics.
Advice is not application. There is a ton of advice online (including this piece). Some of it is good. Some of it is fine. Some of it is wrong. The reader's job is to sort through it all, filter it and make a decision if it's practical to their own life. Someone dispensing life advice about intermittent fasting, micro-dosing hallucinogens, remote working from anywhere in the world, while working a full-time job, while developing a side-hustle from 9 pm to 3 am might make wise sense, but dig a little deeper. If this advice is coming from someone in their late thirties - with no spouse, no kids, who never held a job with a company for more that five years, and has little-to-no financial responsibilities, plus has a ton of white privilege (not to mention that they won the genetic, gender and geographic lottery) - you may want to separate the advice from the individual and question if the application of the information is true (and universal). During the growth of social media in the early 2000s, there were a ton of experts brandsplaining what corporations should do. Ironically, these people had never truly worked for a brand or applied their advice in the real world to test whether or not it works (or is reasonable).
Content is not experience. A piece of content that goes viral is not experience. A Facebook page with tons of likes over countless years is also not experience. That's just a lot of content and advice. Experience is something that happens and is acquired over time. Not by producing content and sharing it, but by doing the work. And not just work. The hard work. The hard work of working on something - over many years - that has a beginning, a middle and an end. Did this individual truly build something that added financial success to their clients. Did they stick with a job and really dig in, or do they hop from job to job just looking for the next better job title or salary bump. Are they building something for anyone but themselves? How many years has this individual been successful for others... not themselves? Did they build the business to the point where another entity saw the value and bought it (not as a fire sale, but at a premium)?
Honesty and integrity is not success. Many "influencers" will use "honesty" and "integrity" as a stopgap when pushed to define why they are successful (or have very little to show in the real world). Honesty and integrity is a value, it is not an indicator of success. Don't confuse the two. I know a ton of decent people still striving for success who are filled with honesty and integrity. Honesty and integrity are not key factors in being successful. We know plenty of people who have neither of those values, and who millions of people would define as successful (as sad as that may be).
Hobby is not success. Following your passion is fun. Following your passion will make you happy. Following your passion will make you much better at the things that you are passionate about. Following your passion is not a measure of success. Being great at your passions and doing it full-time without any serious financial gain is not successful, that's called a "hobby" (and there's nothing wrong with spending time at the things that you love!). Money is a factor here. Jeff Goins once wisely said that, "making money is not keeping money." This is true. If you can turn your hobby into a profitable business that the number one player in your industry would consider a valuable asset to buy, that's probably a more practical way to define success. Many so-called experts and gurus are clouding the marketplace with their non-financially powered hobbies. Again, there's nothing wrong with this, unless they're professing that you too can make money this way (when they, in fact, are not).
A testimony is not a reference. It's too easy to do a quick search or social media scan, and see nothing but compliments about individuals. How smart they are. How what they published is so incredible. How they crushed it on stage at an event. Social testimonials act as a powerful tool in social proofing, but they are not indicators of true success. Speak to the actual clients. Not just the good clients, but speak to the clients when things did not work out. References are not testimonials. Do your research, and check out just how good these individuals are at their trade - not just the self-promotion of their trade.
Bragging is not success. This is a tough one. From the humblebrag to blatant self-promotion, it's hard to get heard. Social media is a strange beast. If we don't toot our own horn, it's unlikely that someone else will. Still, when you look at the people you most consider successful, how often are they bragging or inflating their own tires. Consider the "experts" who like to point to comments, where someone calls them "brilliant," and then shares it with a comment like "humbled to be called brilliant." Again, its nice to share accolades, especially when they are unsolicited, but be reflective of these posts that are nothing more than clouded pieces of self-promotion with no true substance or value to the consumer... other than a continuous process to position the content creator as a credible source.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Back in December, I had a conversation with David C. Baker on my podcast (yeah, uch, I realize what I just did right here!). He published a book titled, The Business of Expertise, that has its own take on how we become an expert and monetize it. It is a different take. David has some controversial thoughts. A lot of the pushback that David received from our chat, came from his thinking of how expertise does equal monetary wealth. It's an interesting perspective. And, it could be argued, that true expertise in business does ultimately lead to wealth. Is money the only metric? Probably not, but in business, money is one of the key leading indicators of how we keep score.
What do you think? Can a business expert also be someone who is flat broke?
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The Rise And Fall Of Thought Leaders, Gurus And Experts
Define "success." This could get ugly.
Recently, someone I would define as "successful" posted a warning about how many experts, gurus and "entrepreneurs" they have met over the years who are flat broke. This person did not share this as a criticism, but as a warning: Be careful whom you trust. They went on to discuss (and in the comments it was heavily debated) how someone's digital platform is rarely anything like their every day life (or, as I like to say: my Facebook profile is the person that I want the world to think that I am), how a lot of the advice given is often not applied and implemented to these "experts" own businesses, and how all of this should act as a sobering reality, warning and caution.
Who? Who are we talking about here?
My guess is that the vast majority of people you find on a "Top 100" list of digital marketers, online influencers, etc... are far from a place anyone would truly define as "successful." The problem, of course, is that defining "success" is not easy. It's not absolute. My definition of "success" is not yours. Success is a spectrum. What encompasses my definition of "success" may have no place in yours. All fair.
With that, here are some thoughts of how you could measure the success of an individual. Your mileage may vary, as Seth Godin likes to say...
Platform is not reality. Friends, followers, likes, shares and more can be bought and sold. Even if an individual did not pay to amplify their digital platform, don't confuse how many people they are connected to with an ability to run a successful business, and provide relevant and actionable information. Behind the scenes, I know countless "influencers" with hundreds of thousands of followers who haven't failed more times than they have succeeded, but rather have never succeeded in anything else but growing their own platform. Avinash Kaushik (Google's digital marketing evangelist and the author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0) calls this "vanity metrics." Don't fall for vanity metrics.
Advice is not application. There is a ton of advice online (including this piece). Some of it is good. Some of it is fine. Some of it is wrong. The reader's job is to sort through it all, filter it and make a decision if it's practical to their own life. Someone dispensing life advice about intermittent fasting, micro-dosing hallucinogens, remote working from anywhere in the world, while working a full-time job, while developing a side-hustle from 9 pm to 3 am might make wise sense, but dig a little deeper. If this advice is coming from someone in their late thirties - with no spouse, no kids, who never held a job with a company for more that five years, and has little-to-no financial responsibilities, plus has a ton of white privilege (not to mention that they won the genetic, gender and geographic lottery) - you may want to separate the advice from the individual and question if the application of the information is true (and universal). During the growth of social media in the early 2000s, there were a ton of experts brandsplaining what corporations should do. Ironically, these people had never truly worked for a brand or applied their advice in the real world to test whether or not it works (or is reasonable).
Content is not experience. A piece of content that goes viral is not experience. A Facebook page with tons of likes over countless years is also not experience. That's just a lot of content and advice. Experience is something that happens and is acquired over time. Not by producing content and sharing it, but by doing the work. And not just work. The hard work. The hard work of working on something - over many years - that has a beginning, a middle and an end. Did this individual truly build something that added financial success to their clients. Did they stick with a job and really dig in, or do they hop from job to job just looking for the next better job title or salary bump. Are they building something for anyone but themselves? How many years has this individual been successful for others... not themselves? Did they build the business to the point where another entity saw the value and bought it (not as a fire sale, but at a premium)?
Honesty and integrity is not success. Many "influencers" will use "honesty" and "integrity" as a stopgap when pushed to define why they are successful (or have very little to show in the real world). Honesty and integrity is a value, it is not an indicator of success. Don't confuse the two. I know a ton of decent people still striving for success who are filled with honesty and integrity. Honesty and integrity are not key factors in being successful. We know plenty of people who have neither of those values, and who millions of people would define as successful (as sad as that may be).
Hobby is not success. Following your passion is fun. Following your passion will make you happy. Following your passion will make you much better at the things that you are passionate about. Following your passion is not a measure of success. Being great at your passions and doing it full-time without any serious financial gain is not successful, that's called a "hobby" (and there's nothing wrong with spending time at the things that you love!). Money is a factor here. Jeff Goins once wisely said that, "making money is not keeping money." This is true. If you can turn your hobby into a profitable business that the number one player in your industry would consider a valuable asset to buy, that's probably a more practical way to define success. Many so-called experts and gurus are clouding the marketplace with their non-financially powered hobbies. Again, there's nothing wrong with this, unless they're professing that you too can make money this way (when they, in fact, are not).
A testimony is not a reference. It's too easy to do a quick search or social media scan, and see nothing but compliments about individuals. How smart they are. How what they published is so incredible. How they crushed it on stage at an event. Social testimonials act as a powerful tool in social proofing, but they are not indicators of true success. Speak to the actual clients. Not just the good clients, but speak to the clients when things did not work out. References are not testimonials. Do your research, and check out just how good these individuals are at their trade - not just the self-promotion of their trade.
Bragging is not success. This is a tough one. From the humblebrag to blatant self-promotion, it's hard to get heard. Social media is a strange beast. If we don't toot our own horn, it's unlikely that someone else will. Still, when you look at the people you most consider successful, how often are they bragging or inflating their own tires. Consider the "experts" who like to point to comments, where someone calls them "brilliant," and then shares it with a comment like "humbled to be called brilliant." Again, its nice to share accolades, especially when they are unsolicited, but be reflective of these posts that are nothing more than clouded pieces of self-promotion with no true substance or value to the consumer... other than a continuous process to position the content creator as a credible source.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Back in December, I had a conversation with David C. Baker on my podcast (yeah, uch, I realize what I just did right here!). He published a book titled, The Business of Expertise, that has its own take on how we become an expert and monetize it. It is a different take. David has some controversial thoughts. A lot of the pushback that David received from our chat, came from his thinking of how expertise does equal monetary wealth. It's an interesting perspective. And, it could be argued, that true expertise in business does ultimately lead to wealth. Is money the only metric? Probably not, but in business, money is one of the key leading indicators of how we keep score.
What do you think? Can a business expert also be someone who is flat broke?
Tags:
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February 26, 2018
In A Snap, Snapchat's In Trouble And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM
Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on i Heart Radio, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.
This week we discussed:
Is everything going sideways at Snapchat? Is this the beginning of the end? Last week, Kylie Jenner tweeted about how she doesn't seem to be engaged with Snapchat all that much anymore. That wiped out over $1.5 billion of their market cap. Then, The Guardian asked whether or not Snapchat is still relevant, because of their recent redesign scandal. Then, it was reported that Snapchat's 27 year old CEO, Evan Spiegel, earned $637.8 million in 2017. A record-high payout for a CEO. Wow... talk about a rollercoaster of a week!
Do you have ad-blocking software running? Last Thursday, Google updated their web browser, Google Chrome, so that it bans ads that initiate full-page pop-ups, blaring videos that start without the consumer initiating them, and those ads with the annoying (and never-ending) countdown clocks by default for both mobile and desktop computers. Is filtering out disruptive ad experiences the right move?
Google also announced some pretty cool advancements in the artificial intelligence space. Their latest algorithm can predict heart disease by simply looking at your eyes. "By analyzing scans of the back of a patient's eye, the company's software is able to accurately deduce data, including an individual's age, blood pressure, and whether or not they smoke. This can then be used to predict their risk of suffering a major cardiac event -- such as a heart attack -- with roughly the same accuracy as current leading methods."
App of the Week: Unclutter for MacBook computers.
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In A Snap, Snapchat's In Trouble And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM
Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on i Heart Radio, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.
This week we discussed:
Is everything going sideways at Snapchat? Is this the beginning of the end? Last week, Kylie Jenner tweeted about how she doesn't seem to be engaged with Snapchat all that much anymore. That wiped out over $1.5 billion of their market cap. Then, The Guardian asked whether or not Snapchat is still relevant, because of their recent redesign scandal. Then, it was reported that Snapchat's 27 year old CEO, Evan Spiegel, earned $637.8 million in 2017. A record-high payout for a CEO. Wow... talk about a rollercoaster of a week!
Do you have ad-blocking software running? Last Thursday, Google updated their web browser, Google Chrome, so that it bans ads that initiate full-page pop-ups, blaring videos that start without the consumer initiating them, and those ads with the annoying (and never-ending) countdown clocks by default for both mobile and desktop computers. Is filtering out disruptive ad experiences the right move?
Google also announced some pretty cool advancements in the artificial intelligence space. Their latest algorithm can predict heart disease by simply looking at your eyes. "By analyzing scans of the back of a patient's eye, the company's software is able to accurately deduce data, including an individual's age, blood pressure, and whether or not they smoke. This can then be used to predict their risk of suffering a major cardiac event -- such as a heart attack -- with roughly the same accuracy as current leading methods."
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February 25, 2018
Grow Wherever You Work With Joanna Barsh - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast
Episode #607 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
How do real people succeed in the real world of work? That's the question bestselling author Joanna Barsh set out to answer in her latest book, Grow Wherever You Work. How did she find the answer? Not by asking motivational types or the well-established CEOs, but by diving into the trenches with today's boldest, brightest, up-and-coming leaders (some were... millennials!!... gasp!). Distilling the stories of important work challenges from more than 200 rising leaders in 120 companies, her new book can help anyone grow and learn through the challenges that we all face--not despite them. Why Joanna? Prior to retiring, she joined McKinsey & Company in 1981 and was a senior partner. Along with her consulting work, she lead the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project, whose goal was to help develop women leaders. Joanna is a New York City Commissioner of Women's Issues and received the Girl Scouts Council Woman of Distinction Award and the National Council of Research on Women Award. Joanna is also a trustee of Sesame Workshop. She was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School and is also the author of Centered Leadership and How Remarkable Women Lead. Enjoy the conversation...
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Grow Wherever You Work With Joanna Barsh - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast
Episode #607 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
How do real people succeed in the real world of work? That's the question bestselling author Joanna Barsh set out to answer in her latest book, Grow Wherever You Work. How did she find the answer? Not by asking motivational types or the well-established CEOs, but by diving into the trenches with today's boldest, brightest, up-and-coming leaders (some were... millennials!!... gasp!). Distilling the stories of important work challenges from more than 200 rising leaders in 120 companies, her new book can help anyone grow and learn through the challenges that we all face--not despite them. Why Joanna? Prior to retiring, she joined McKinsey & Company in 1981 and was a senior partner. Along with her consulting work, she lead the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project, whose goal was to help develop women leaders. Joanna is a New York City Commissioner of Women's Issues and received the Girl Scouts Council Woman of Distinction Award and the National Council of Research on Women Award. Joanna is also a trustee of Sesame Workshop. She was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School and is also the author of Centered Leadership and How Remarkable Women Lead. Enjoy the conversation...
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February 24, 2018
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #400
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, Pandemonio, and ResolveTO, Author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Dirty Tricks - Business Wars - NPR . "I often refer to Netflix and Blockbuster when talking about innovation: Netflix wanted the future to be here sooner, so they stuffed DVDs into envelopes, turning the postal service into a broadband network. But I had no idea how dirty the fight was until I listened to this." (Alistair for Hugh).
Wearable scanners will be able to read our minds - Financial Times . "I was in Ottawa this week, speaking to government about the future of work, and the unreasonable power of algorithms. It's not just AI, but the speed with which sensors and robotics are improving, that challenge the way we work. Case in point: MRIs are great, but expensive. What if they were a thousand times cheaper and a billion times more clear? The implications for everything from diagnostics to interrogation are stunning." (Alistair for Mitch).
Chart of the day (century?): Price changes 1997 to 2017 - AEIdeas . "I don't know that I agree with the conclusions of the writers, and I would like to see the fuller range of data and goods/asset classes (for instance, I would like to see how some other ' oods' such as houses track), but. Pretty wild to see differences in cost increase profiles across different goods, with hospitals, college tuition and textbooks soaring above the rest." (Hugh for Alistair).
William Baumol, whose famous economic theory explains the modern world, has died - Vox . "And... here is the economic theory that explains (some of) the differences between goods/services costs that have increased vs. declined over the past 20 years. According to the Baumol Cost Disease theory, the difference is not due to government interference (as the author of the post above suggests), but rather because: 'rising productivity in the manufacturing sector of the economy inevitably pushes up the cost of labor-intensive services like live musical performances [and college tuituon]. Rising productivity allows factories to cut prices and raise wages at the same time. But when wages rise, music venues [and colleges] have no alternative but to raise ticket prices to cover the higher costs.'" (Hugh for Mitch).
Iggy And The Stooges - Rider . "Typically, the 'rider' is a dry and very specific document that a band (and management) sends to the promoter of a live show. The document is meant to ensure that all of the specifics that the band requires (from sound to lighting to backstage food) is done just right, so that the band can really deliver a great show. As a speaker, I have a rider too. I want to ensure that the av is set-up just right, so that I can deliver a great presentation. This is the rider for Iggy Pop and his band, The Stooges. It is also proof that you never have to be boring. In fact, if you're even a little bit different, a mundane piece of content can easily go viral. Like this one..." (Mitch for Alistair).
Is the E-Reader Dead? - Tom's Guide . "As huge book nerds, this information may be both obvious and deeply disturbing. I've been a fan of having a sole e-reader for a very long time. I like the fact that the books are 'isolated' and that I have no other distraction than reading with these devices. I also enjoy the fact that they were designed with the sole intent of reading. With that, I read most of my books (and I still read a ton) on my iPhone using the Kindle app. Probably not good for my eyes. Probably get too distracted by other apps. But... another device to lug around? Ugh. Well, is it the end for the e-reader?..." (Mitch for Hugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.
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