After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom — fewer individual automatons and more autonomous individuals.
Daniel Pink in Seth Godin’s What Matters Now
Source: danpink.com
Simon and Schuster or the Encyclopedia Britannica could have become Google (organizing the world’s information) but they didn’t build a search engine because that’s not what they do. Struggling newspapers could have become thriving networks of long tail content, but they chose not to, because that’s not what they do.
Why?
Seth Godin, The why imperative
Seth offers a great counter-balance to the cult of “core competency.” Focus is key, but don’t become blind to change.
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
