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Recognition is important and has its place. If you have responsibility over people you should be giving proper recognition when recognition is due. However, if you want highly motivated people in your team, you should choose people that accept recognition thankfully, but do not depend on it for doing a great job and exceeding expectations. (Something similar can be said about incentives.) Seth Godin, writing about work as a form of art, in The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Read more...

Asymco’s Horace Dediu commenting on The Globe and Mail’s article Inside the fall of Blackberry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt: The iPhone was not a low-end disruption. It was exactly the opposite. The BlackBerry and the Nokia products were striving for the low end. They observed the discipline of constrained resources. They were expanding into emerging markets. They watched every fraction of a penny on the bill of materials. Read more...

Shane Parrish citing Yvon Chouinard: Managers have short term vision, implement strategic plans, and keep things running as they always have. Leaders take risks, have long term vision, create the strategic plans, and instigate change. The best leadership is by example. Read more...

Suggestive video from RSA Animate about work. It assumes the dominance of the corporation as the primary organizer or work, but it’s nonetheless suggestive. Tools are importante, but it is trust in your employees and between your employees what enables a collaborative working environment, regardless of where they work. Read more...

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, says about reading: In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren(Buffett) reads – at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out"1 Reading takes time. If reading is important for you –it should be, reading and learning are closely related–, you need to allocate specific time for it. Read more...