Must Read, Walter Isaacson Follows Up With Management Lessons of Steve Jobs @HBR

Walter Isaacson has a great summary of the management lessons he believes Steve Jobs has provided us "The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs" Here are all the main headings. Enjoy. Focus Simplify Take Responsibility End to End When Behind, Leapfrog Put Products Before Profits Don’t Be a Slave To Focus Groups Bend Reality Impute...

Career Planning With pmarca, Seth Godin, & Steve Blank (and Ben Horowitz)

I was asked about career advice the other day. As usual it was a very interesting conversation. But it is such a tough decision. I'm never sure if I said the right things. In case I get asked again here are the three best Career Planning writings that I've found over the years. What is...

Stop Solving the Wrong Problems -> Start Making Service Calls

The dailygood (not a noted business blog ) has a great article this week titled "From Selling to Serving" via BJ Gallagher. The topic for this week's meeting was: "What are you doing to keep your business going in these crazy-making economic times?" ... When it was my turn to speak, I said, "I've stopped...

On Being “Single-Threaded” — Apple, Jobs, & You

It's interesting how many "single-tasking" writings I've come across in the past year. Here are three that will get you FOCUSSED. The most timely is the one on Steve Jobs, the most personally useful is from the Zen Habits blog, and it's just interesting to find it on HBR. 1) Adam Lashinsky's "Inside Apple". On...

Read Seth Godin’s Education Manifesto/Rant “Stop Stealing Dreams”

I finally finished Seth's new "freely available" education Manifesto "Stop Stealing Dreams". I really liked it. It builds on his book Linchpin and leverages a lot of Sir Ken Robinson. If you've read these then be prepared for a lot of overlap at the beginning. The ebook is written in blog style and numbered. Here...