Desperately seeking Wow, this is a article on when a company is starting to slip into a economic downturn or is lossing market share what can be done, how fast and what it should look like. The two examples of Avon shifting from global to local personallities to represent their products and Nokia who plans to sell to Microsoft and is fail on the gains of Apple and Google who are dominating the handheld device war. The idea was floated that these companies thought they were to big to fail is a often heard sediment of dinosaurs, but really in when a start up can spring up anywhere today and 3-d print a new product in minutes how do large companies expect to survive without reinvention? Another example is that business as usual is over and to survive “disruptive change” and “wowing customers" has to become the norm. Paint a picture of where you are trying to go, while seeking outside ideas for invigorating ideas. The blogs focus seems to be centered on the idea that leadership must be bold take risks, and the status que is the easiest way to become obselete. http://zenhabits.net- The blog today seems like a pitch for the monthly program pitch for one of the monthly sales items on changing you habits, diet and daily decisions. This involves public declarations and a number of things, I am going to skip this and go to the next entry as it seems a little useless (other then to say the author was to ran a 50 mile run the next day). The next entry was to discuss the issues with a internet fast, this turns out to be trickier then the author expected with google map, this first started as half day breaks to be revised to 9am breaks. This then results in in other expections which spin out of control and the so forth and degresses to the author really not knowing a good way to get work done and limit the internet, then he starts a new header on not eating refined carbs. I have not eaten refined carbs (perhaps on the occasional restuarant only option straving basis) really ever. This brings up a pretty interesting point to me as why do people eat this junk in the first place? I have never really eaten "sweets" or "snacks" and having worked with food allot am pretty aware of my food consumption. Recently I have started to spend a lot more for quality while eating less, to me this is really what everything should be about. Less is more or less work but lazer focused on the important stuff work and be done. As a leader this could mean only ask and discuss results and skip all the timeclocks, and little stuff. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/- Seth seems to rant about the wierdest stuff lately and now I am wondering what drew me to his blog to begin with. This week he is In Search of the Obvious Answer, this sort of a couple useless sentences on things not being obvious until they are and that you are not going to fly like superman as he lacks a understanding of gravity. THe next blog because I can not spend anymore thoughts or end on his first one is the next is saying that anything done locally could be done better on the web and on a larger scale using the economy of scale. This seems sort of limited in thinking, as rather then shipping a million units from China of a said good, in a day soon a custom made item will be 3-d printed in anyones basement or at a corner or "local" spot. I would suggest a counter opinion that leadership and goods are pushing hyper locally and food should be grown by everyone, and 3-d printers will replace a lot of purchasing of "goods", then everything else should be traded for locally and eliminate the debt to currencies and banks.
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