Month: September 2022

The awesome US cartoonist Shoe (think owl in a tree) had one strip that is still framed in my study with the line: "IS THIS BRILLIANCE IR COMPLEX STUPIDITY?" I wrote to Shoe in admiration and received a personalized version back. Always worth a Litmus Test for the seemingly brilliant...and thank you, Shoe! View in LinkedIn

At last a great posting on this critical topic! The WHO numbers are conservative, as citations from some West African countries have been that over 80% of the pharmaceuticals are counterfeit. Never purchase medicines on the Internet! http://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/articles/2010/119.html?page=full View in LinkedIn

Is this an example of disruptive technology ("innovators" in this article) being less important than what I call "incremental technology", which is not disruptive, but adds value? The disruptive technologies are relatively few in the absolute sense, the airplane, radio, electricity, computers, to name a few iconic examples. But incremental technologies, better than the innovator, form the vast majority of successful technology plays. This supports my advice to entrepreneurs: better is perfectly good, and it neither has to be scalable nor disruptive to be a successful venture! http://lnkd.in/kP-wJr View in LinkedIn

A quoted saying is: "entrepreneurs are the only people who work 100 hours per week to avoid working 40". http://lnkd.in/wdeEkS View in LinkedIn

"IS THIS BRILLIANCE OR COMPLEX STUPIDITY?"" "" "By Shoe, the cartoonist View in LinkedIn

GETTING TO YES, by Harvard guys Roger Fisher and William Ury is a book that I have given away hundreds of copies. I used to carry it in my briefcase as moral support. If you are unacquainted with this of its sequels do yourself a favor and read it. View in LinkedIn

SIX THINKING HATS By erstwhile Cambridge academic Edward De Bono is a provocative guide to THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. "The biggest enemy of thinking is complexity, for that leads to confusion". He is a believer in simplifying thinking by dealing with one thing at a time. A MUST READ! View in LinkedIn

THE MIND OF THE STRATEGIST by Kenichi Ohamae, former McKinsey & Company Director. While it was published over 30 years ago, it remains a powerful resource for business analysis. View in LinkedIn

As many companies implode due to EQ as due to other reasons. When evaluating a deal, of any sort, assess not only the IQ element (smarts, on target, all objective stuff) but also the EQ of the decision-maker. Without it you can end up in the schoolyard sandbox with a smart, but socially arrested counterpart driven by ego and a skewed view of the way the world operates. View in LinkedIn

READ THE PATENT OFFICE (www.uspto.gov)! This is a source of some 7 M inventions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Cut through the formulaic language and get to the pure invention. This is a technologist's continuing education project, and a truly humbling experience at its best. View in LinkedIn