The selection of a new CEO is the ultimate next step for any enterprise. Microsoft’s selection of a new CEO this week offers us the chance to analyse the importance of taking the right step. Few companies offer such a tangle of elements that allow us to predict...
I’m betting you like your home, but is your home “conscious” yet? That question, really, comes from Tony Fadell (and Matt Rogers), who are the founders of the Nest (@nest) company [link]. That’s the company which created a user-friendly...
Last June, when I wrote “Nelson Mandela Will Always Be With Us” [link], it was with the expectation of his imminent passing. As you most likely know, Mandela died last week and the burial will be held 15 December [link]. The more formal eulogies started...
When a group is in nextsensing mode, it often has a feeling of being stuck or being lost. I liken it to driving off a main rode into wilderness on a moonless night. Sure, you have headlights and you’re moving; but you can’t be sure you’re moving in...
Michael Horn, the co-founder and executive director of education practice at Innosight Institute, and Clayton Christensen, the well-known Harvard prof and innovation expert, have a great post on MOOCs that you should read — especially if you are in any way...
One of the great things about today’s Internet is how easy it is to collaborate with others. A few weeks ago, I appeared on the website of Deborah Mills-Scofield; this week, I spotted Deb’s thoughts appearing on Tanveer Naseer’s great website. But it...
