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dispatches from the new world of work

Link Roundup #14

There are a few books by Cool Friends:
Jason Fried has written Rework with David Heinemeier Hansson, his co-founder at 37signals. The back of the book states, in part, that "planning is guessing," and "inspiration is perishable."

Dan Heath and his brother Chip wrote Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard. They explain how the chances of sustaining change are increased if both sides of the brain are satisfied ... the emotional side as well as the logical side.

Richard A D'Aveni is a friend who hasn't yet become a Cool Friend. In Beating the Commodity Trap, D'Aveni points out that commoditization can happen to any business or product, even the most iconic.

Cool Friend Sylvia Ann Hewlett has an article on Bloomberg.com by way of HarvardBusiness.org, "Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market." We appreciate her adding her voice to Tom's.

Then there are a couple of quirky messages we got in the emails:
In response to Tom's video about First-line Supervisors, Marko Gregori directed questions to Tom about managing negative talk if you're working on a good product under a bad boss. Marko ended up by posting a blog asking for input, and you might help him out by contributing some thoughts on the subject.

Finally, Shed Simove, a creative consultant whose memoir is titled Ideas Man is offering ideas for bid on eBay. Please don't take this as a recommendation or advertisement. We enjoy putting some unusual web links in front of you. You can judge them for yourselves, and I'm sure, let us know if they're of interest or way off base.

Cathy Mosca posted this on 03/12/10.

Comments

I love the ideas man piece and the concept of selling an idea service.

As someone whose head is full of ideas I have spent a lifetime both excited by them and frustrated by being unable to use them.

There are people out there who are good at ideas. There are people out there who are good at doing stuff. The two basic assumptions which probably represent the dumbest things in business (and life as well) are:

1) Thinkers need converting into doers – otherwise they are not valuable

2) That doers are good at thinking.

Businesses cripple themselves with this. They try to get thinkers to implement – which often ends poorly and the thinking (by doers - often in positions of authority) is sometimes atrocious with basic flaws in logic, approach and understanding.

The secret, as with all things, is balance, understanding and using people for the strengths they have.

If we truly believe we are in a world of knowledge workers - Then surely paying people for ideas makes perfect sense?

Posted by PaulH at March 16, 2010 9:03 AM

tom peters is special like specials and brillands people of god.

Posted by esteban at March 17, 2010 3:09 PM