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Idiots, including some at MIT, think in labels
Taleb tweeted, "Mathematicians think in proofs, lawyers in constructs, logicians in operators, dancers in movement, artists in impressions, and idiots in labels."According to this argument,...
View ArticleHey democrats, ready to return to your Russia conspiracy theory or do you...
What's coming up, losers?Christine Ford has announced she will not pursue her false accusation of the newly-appointed Associate Justice of the SC. (She's pocketed a million or two.)Also, your next...
View Article"When the debate is lost, SLANDER becomes the tool of the loser"
Socrates said that about today's leftists, who's full-time job is to run smear campaigns. In the meantime, Elon Musk has gotten his Falcon 9 first stage to land. And Trump has made more progress with...
View ArticleIndian IT companies formed CARTEL to keep entry-level salary low, admits IT...
People in the industry always knew that folks fresh out of college were underpaid. But it's remarkable that the word "cartel" was used by a co-founder of Infosys, Mohandas Pai. Read Times of India...
View ArticleWikileaks versus "corporate media"
"If the DOJ seeks to prosecute Wikileaks or Julian Assange, then they also have to do so to other media outlets who have published official documents and leaks like The Washington Post and The New York...
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Do not blindly trust "experts"
What the media told you to do before election ...What's happened now ...The Dow is up 6680 points since his tweet.
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One of America's best PROCESS INNOVATION projects?
How regulations in America looked in 1960. How they look now. And a promise: regulations will be less than how they looked in 1960.If done within reasonable time, this would be one of the best examples...
View Article"If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1/2:If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one.Let me add just a bit to Taleb's great quote ...True reputation is earned based on your positive CONTRIBUTIONS...
View ArticleThinking of farmers
It's nice that people of some states in India have dedicated a day to honor the hard-working farmers. Called Pongal by Tamil-speaking Indians, it may also be viewed as harvest festival. Well, there's...
View ArticleReplacing a failed strategy pulled Panasonic back from the brink
President Kazuhiro Tsuga did it, with Elon Musk as his lodestar (“We’ve to use some of Elon’s thinking,” he says).The old strategy that produced a staggering loss of over $10 billion: Emphasis on...
View ArticleCamden Property Trust: employee retention strategy
President Keith Oden said: Our greatest retention strategy is making sure all of our team members share in the company’s success.Love the simple communication of a part of the company's strategy.Hard...
View ArticleOrganizational initiatives present opportunities you shouldn't miss
Every tech initiative and every business transformation initiative would gain from strategy translation. To generate strategic outcomes and eliminate what I call "spills" and "cleanup," the first thing...
View ArticleTEDx talk: How real is fake news?
Speaker Sharyl Attkisson is a five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting and author of two New York Times bestsellers: “The Smear” and...
View ArticleWhether prototyping works for you depends on WHEN you use it
Design is an important activity in strategy translation. And prototyping is an extremely useful design technique. However, an obsession with prototyping has introduced a business risk: not putting...
View ArticleYour organization might be sitting on a great "oil reserve"
From its fast growth through expansion of services, it appears Airbnb continually explores a variety of opportunities. A great number of opportunities is available for your organization as well. How do...
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Save the world or start a business?
When young people want to help mankind and ask Taleb what they should do, he suggests:1. Never engage in virtue-signaling (debasing of virtue by using it as a marketing strategy for "save the...
View ArticleElon's April 1 tweets: part of an emerging leadership style?
First his tweets and then my comments ... Tesla Goes BankruptPalo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 -- Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad...
View ArticleDoes demand create supply? Or is it the other way around?
Some folks say: There are drug cartels in Mexico and dangerous illegal aliens in America because Americans want drugs. So, America demands and Mexico supplies, according to them.Will these same folks...
View ArticleGreat insights for Do-and-Persuade situations
Scott Adams describes how the White House is executing a brutally effective High Ground Persuasion Play. https://t.co/lZF2sVVRia— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 20, 2018Are you trying to DO...
View ArticleHow to make yourself VALUABLE: if you're not best-in-the-world, build a...
Scott Adams writes about two ways to make yourself valuable."The first way is to become the best at some specific skill, the way Tiger Woods dominated golf. But not many of us can be Tiger Woods. So...
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