“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.”
(Touchdown 2006, Ballantine)
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Tag: Systems
“5. BE BOLD ENOUGH TO MAKE STUFF THAT’S SMALL BUT GREAT”
“Leaving the system behind and creating something of your own may actually be thing that gets you into the system, hopefully on your own terms.” — Mike Birbiglia
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/movies/mike-birbiglias-6-tips-for-making-it-small-in-hollywood-or-anywhere.html?_r=0
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
“…I found it better to “do it now while it’s in my head” instead of “worry about it later”. …”
https://medium.com/@m.taylor/zero-to-mvp-thirty-minutes-at-a-time-d4661446e081
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
“This large payoff from stubborn courage is not just in the military. The entire growth of society, whether economic or moral, comes from a small number of people. So we close this chapter with a remark about the role of skin in the game in the condition of society. Society doesn’t evolve by consensus, voting, majority, committees, verbose meeting, academic conferences, and polling; only a few people suffice to disproportionately move the needle. All one needs is an asymmetric rule somewhere. And asymmetry is present in about everything.”
http://player.piksel.com/player.php?video_uuid=ul614j1o
http://news.delta.com/ceo-apologizes-customers-flight-schedule-recovery-continues
“…What you see on the video is their operations center. It is not their IT command center. The big airlines have operations centers. There they track their flights, their fleet, their crews, the weather, etc. The operate 1000’s of planes that each flying 4 to 8 or more flights a day. The crews don’t necessarily stay on the same plane all day. The time they are awake and work each day is carefully managed. The daily logistics to get the maximum use of the fleet is daunting.
“If a plane needs a new tire — do you delay its next flight, or pull a plane from another flight? If there are too many weather delays the airline may have to bring in a new crew. The crew they relieve may be out of position for their next days assignments. The airlines use operations research software to evaluate the options and pick the one that has the least total impact to the system on that day.
“When you consider what is needed to manage the real time operations of an airline, the room shown in the video is exactly what you would expect. This wasn’t a PR shot.”
http://www.cringely.com/2016/08/08/outsourced-probably-hurt-delta-airlines-power-went/#comment-675372
Rule 2: Our Network shapes us
https://medium.com/technolog%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD/rule-2-our-network-shapes-us-37905f5f95ce
Part 1:… Local networks in technology have low value because technology is global.
https://medium.com/technolog%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD/rule-1-we-shape-our-network-2d3a50c8d7b6
Reaching a Stronger Starting Point
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/08/05/designers-existing-project/
Five ways to build a $100 million business http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build-100-million-business.html
Three more ways to build a $100 million business http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/11/three-more-ways-to-build-100-million.html
How To Innovate Your Business Model In 5 (Not So Easy) Steps
How To Innovate Your Business Model In 5 (Not So Easy) Steps