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Recommended reading: june 2009

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Since it’s been a while this is longer than normal but hopefully there’s something useful here.

Innovation leadership and culture: Observations from Johnson & Johnson

Stefan Lindegaard and Jeff Murphy executive director at Johnson & Johnson on what business leaders who are seeking to improve their organization’s innovation capability and capacity should do.

Top 50 Important Tools – Tools Everyone Should Own – Popular Mechanics

A useful guide to all of the DIY equipment you should own but don’t

:: 100-WHATS ::

Filled with questions to aid creativity.

Rush to outsource all software development can lead to productivity drop

Compass Management Consulting warns that corporates rushing to outsource their software development to make short term savings risk significant long-term losses in productivity.

SCAMPER – a powerful product innovation tool

A productive and versatile technique for examining a product or service from differing angles and for generating ideas

What is Love? A True Animal Love Story

Read it and try not to cry

Forget strategy

An innocuous typo I saw today got me thinking: what if we used a word called startegy instead of strategy?

Paul Graham, on How to Make New Things

Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

Use a Japanese Haiku for a different view

Japanese Haiku error messages

The Lefferts law of management

The Lefferts law of management: It is your fault

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