Books
Viral Loop – The power of pass it on
I was recently recommended a book by Adam Penenberg called ‘Viral Loop’ by an old colleague of mine Marty Carrol who has just set up a cracking start-up called PowNum. In essence the take-aways from the book are: Some traditional companies, such as Tupperware, achieved “viral”-type success decades before popular use of the Internet. Online [...]
The speed at which we live
Alan Lightman wrote an amazing paragraph in his book “Einsteins Dreams” in 1993 that is never more pertinent that it is today: “A man or a woman suddenly thrust into this world would have to dodge houses and buildings. For all is in motion. Houses and apartments, mounted on wheels, go careening through Bahnhofplatz and [...]
The Dip
In 1963, Peter Drucker made an assertion with which Seth Godin presumably agrees: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”
