IP Summit - interesting keynote
Mr. Bruno Van Pottelsberghe from @SBSEM & @Bruegel_org will deliver the Keynote of the #IPSummit on Friday 5th December, at 8.30 am
— Premier Cercle (@PremierCercle) December 2, 2014
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better.
Clayton Christensen. “The Disruptive Start-Up: Clayton Christensen On How To Compete With The Best” (via peterspear)
We have a toxic relationship with failure. From an early age, we are taught in school that mistakes are bad. Mistakes on papers and tests are marked with a red pen and points are taken off. As a result, school teaches us to avoid mistakes rather than to make mistakes and then learn from them.
Failures are actually brilliant opportunities to learn. It is often easier to diagnose what went wrong after a failure than to figure out the key elements that lead to a success. By avoiding failure, then, we are removing an important tool from our mental toolbox.
Great presentation about leadership and the three questions that truly matter, including one that only seldom gets proper attention: why?
Cisco’s vision seems to be very much into consumer applications of technology as key trends for 2014, something that seems odd given the nature of their business and the increasing intensity of signals pointing towards a shift in favor of enterprise applications in the start-up space.
Malcolm Gladwell on his latest book in an interview led by Wharton management professor Adam M. Grant. Food for thought on our assumptions about influence, leadership and power.
Creation by Nicole Prues, an artist who uses the ancient pottery technique of coiling to generate organic shapes that emerge into real life out of her inspiration and imagination. Coiling was used in many areas on our planet in very ancient times: China, Africa, Greece, Central America… So, coiling feels like a good analogy for how business and wealth get built: iteratively, shaping elements of the whole with only a rough idea for the final result, based on a creators inspired imagination.
There is a certain property of data: in large data sets, large deviations are vastly more attributable to noise (or variance) than to information (or signal).
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Startup Weekend is very much “come as you are” and it’s very much about having no fear to play with ideas and unfamiliar, but very effective, ways of toying with business concepts. So this song made sense to express the mood of the moment.
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