Posts Tagged ‘leadership’

Bookmarks for November 5th through November 6th

These are my links for November 5th through November 6th: Networked Society ‘On the Brink’ – I favorited a YouTube video: In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, [...]

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Bookmarks for October 31st through November 1st

These are my links for October 31st through November 1st: The Science of Change – The key is that we need to change ourselves. We need to transform, not them. We don’t need to occupy Wall Street, we simply need to occupy Main Street because that is where they occupy us. It is not enough [...]

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Delivering Happiness #ftw

One for the morning, Tony Hsieh of Zappos visits Google in Mountain View and talks about his book – Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (no affiliate link of course), found via Gerd Leonhard‘s stream. I have the feeling that I’ve heard at least some of the stories before, but it’s a [...]

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Profits, passion, purpose

This has been a highlight of this second day at LeWeb 2009. Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, blew away the crowd this morning at LeWeb with an inspiring speech about meaning/purpose and happiness. A long applause followed his presentation. Sebastien compiled a write-up of Tony’s talk here, some tasty bits on the real success factors in [...]

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Real action and an agenda for change

While this is an interesting perspective of Barack Obama’s inauguration speech (wordle courtesy of Emily Chang) and it was impressive, the real action is here: great agenda for change, heck doing the www.whitehouse.gov/blog thing at all.

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IT Value Stack and Leadership

I recently finished “The IT Value Stack – A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership” which Ade McCormack‘s agent sent me (disclosure: I agreed to read and write a review in exchange – no other promises made). Anyway, McCormack and Auridian are better at promoting the ideas and concepts, like e.g. in this video: Overall I [...]

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Krank durch Arbeit?

Organisationspathologien aus anderer Perspektive, ein Podcast von SWR 2 Geld, Markt, Meinung “Krank durch Arbeit?” (mp3) : Immer mehr Arbeitnehmer bleiben wegen Ängsten, Depressionen oder Stresskrankheiten ihrem Arbeitsplatz fern. In den Statistiken der Krankenkassen spiegelt sich diese Entwicklung wider: Als einzige Krankheitsart nehmen seit Anfang der 90iger Jahre die psychischen Störungen zu. Tendenz: weiter steigend. [...]

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