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Tweet Bloomberg’s Game Changers is quite an interesting documentary about Google’s founders – Sergey Brin and Larry Page – starting from their first meeting at Stanford till today’s new media mega-company which is on a collision course with the old media businesses like newspapers, books, television and movies. The video is around 50 minutes long [...]
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Tweet Here’s a couple of things from the year that is coming to an end. 2010 had a good taste for me. Let’s hope for a healthy and fruitful 2011. Here we go: got a Specialized. This means that 2010 was a good year for riding, which reminds me that I miss Bulgaria – best [...]
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Tweet Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Switch – How To Change Things When Change Is Hard, is all about understanding the mechanics of change. The book is structured on 3 main parts (Direct the Rider, Motivate the Elephant, Shape the Path) which explain the brain’s two independent systems that work at all times: the emotional [...]
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Tweet Some time ago I was telling you about Linchpin by Seth Godin (which I still recommend you read). One of my favorite parts of the book was the description of the lizard brain and how this small part of our brain actually affects our lives, how it manifests, and what we can do to [...]
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Tweet Ken Robinson pinpoints during his Ted Talk that we have built our education systems on the model of fast food, where everything is standardized. This model of education is impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. And this model is just not good for a [...]
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Tweet A linchpin is an essential element in the success of a team or a plan, it is a pin to prevent a wheel from coming off. Seth Godin takes this term further and shows why a linchpin is the employee of the future, the one that will change our society, the one that breaks [...]
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Tweet And it’s not just the media that are under threat. Why go to a doctor when there’s NHS Direct? Why have sex when there’s always some bird in Latvia who’s happy to get her knickers off? Why buy an encyclopedia when there’s Wikipedia (apart from the fact that everything on Wikipedia is wrong)? Why [...]
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