from: BNET/The Corner Office blog
When a brilliant idea isn’t so brilliant:
Focusing energy on a project just because it’s “brilliant” does not always justify diverting time and resources from other company goals, Steve Tobak writes. He argues that pet projects can lead to a loss of focus and increased opportunity cost. [...]

I just read an article on BNet called, ‘Truthiness’ Can Make or Break a Corporation, by Jeffrey Pfeffer (May 20th, 2010 @ 8:00 am). “Truthiness” is a word Stephen Colbert coined to talk about how a business or news item “smells.” The truthiness factor is a sniff test – you can smell truth or [...]

I have a pet peeve at my fitness center. It’s located in a huge hospital complex so there are brick-sized metal plates on the wall that emergency personnel and frail people can hit to open the doors electronically. It always surprises me how many people will spend an hour lifting weights and will consume electricity to open a simple push door when they’re coming and going.

The writing’s on the wall:
we’re at a stage of evolution where
we have to make profound systemic changes
so that we place more appropriate value on what really matters.