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Jared- your link does not work for Feedly... the original link (http://www.entrepreneneurship.org/growthology) is already loaded so will I be ok?
TIA!
Norris Krueger
Moving
Dear readers, We have been working behind the scenes to migrate growthology to a new platform and join forces with Policy Forum on the Foundation's entrepreneurship.org website. You can find now find us at http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog.aspx?category=Growthology, wher...
Showing my age, but I was at Caltech during the end of the Wooden era (and played basketball)
Telling point?
Howland's offense allows more freelancing (er, everybody gets to shoot) than Wooden's (IIRC) Wooden's system focused on his superstars but within a disciplined structure.
However, Howland and too many other coaches are paradoxically hard on mistakes. I remember one of Wooden's young players had 10 assist and 0 turnovers. Wooden's only-half-joking response was that the player didn't make enough mistakes. No turnovers = insufficient risk-taking.
Freelancing + extreme risk-avoidance or highly structured + risk-acceptance? I know which system I'd prefer (and in no universe would I be a star, LOL)
[OK, and how many coaches were happy that his team would go to Grateful Dead concerts ;) ]
p.s. If he can get superstars to gel (at one point, he had EIGHT 1st team Parade All-Americans on his roster) now that's a great discussion in and of itself. Thoughts?
OTOH...
The Rise of a Culture of Contempt and the Demise of UCLA Men's Basketball
Work Matters reader and fellow blogger, Chris Yeh, sent me a link to a Sport's Illustrated story about the discouraging downfall of the UCLA basketball program. And I don't mean the drop off in performance at UCLA in the past few years, I mean the loss of its soul and the rise of a culture of c...
One thing we know pretty clearly is that a *comprehensive* entrepreneurship development strategy in needed. We have to keep in mind that it's an ecosystem with many moving parts. But... if we do, we can make remarkable progress!
It is hard for top-down, institutional perspectives to "get" the crazy bottom-up, networked entrepreneurial process but crafting a comprehensive strategy is doable. You just might have to do it yourself! (You will find that you have many friends around the globe, if you do so. Count me in, for one. I met the Startup Weekend Oman organizer & I know Oman's great entrepreneurial potential!)
Just Entrepreneur It!
Norris
Oman Debate 2011- The good, the bad and the ugly.
The Oman Debate was a healthy taster of things to come..... A refreshing open forum where although it kicked off with our typical reserved and conservative Omani way of not pointing to the elephant in the room, it gradually picked up pace, to everyone now wanting to describe details of th...
"Blame" in the strict psychological sense is rarely, if ever, productive. But it is so easy to fall into. ("Blame" is attributing the target as the proximate cause of a harm - I was injured & you caused it.)
Kelly Shaver did work years ago on this - even where blame is the accurate attribution, it's not healthy to ruminate on this.
The flip side is that it's healthy to attribute success to effort & unhealthy to attribute success (espec. other people's success) to luck or powerful others.
BUT... contagion can also be GOOD! Look at very recent work by Melissa Cardon on another organizational contagion... Passion! Entrepreneurial passion really can be extraordinarily contagious - but it takes the right skills, etc. (Might it even be a *key* capability for entrepreneurs?)
Bob, thanks again for the lead to JExSocPsych!
Norris
Blame is Contagious, Except When People Have High Self-Worth
A pair of themes that I have returned to over and over again at Work Matters are: 1. One of the most revealing tests of a leader or organization is "what happens when people fail" (especially, creating psychologically safety rather than a climate of fear is important, as is accountability for mi...
Great to see this new resource!
Website is now active!
We're thrilled to announce that the new website for Technology Ventures is live. Check out: http://techventures.stanford.edu for video clips of leading entrepreneurial thinkers, syllabi from related classes, a sample chapter from the book, and other resources. Many thanks to Forrest Glick and th...
Actually, it's the Boy Scouts (not to quibble) but it's still good words for a world where we can't get people to pick up their dogs', er, "gifts". And I wonder how much narcissism matters...
The research says that people love to feel that The Rules don't apply to them, that we're special. A more benign version is that they feel entitled (if not obliged) to make their own rules.. isn't that what we often celebrate in great leaders & in entrepreneurs?? So when does that go off the rails?
We live in a painfully narcissistic world - when that sense of entitlement meets deep doubts... should we be surprised?
When I studied cults, a recurring comment from the cults was "I'm entitled to my reality" when actually meant "I'm entitled for my reality to be correct" (as in I should not be harmed by the consequences of my beliefs.)
But add enormous power & resources plus a reasonably opaque system... and it's logical for the "titans" to make their own rules while avoiding the consequences.
Anyway, I'd be curious if others see this as all being driven by narcissism? By a narcissistic society? And what other psychological phenomena might be identified? (Seligman's learned optimism comes to mind..)
Anyway, nice to have my thinking stimulated this AM - thanks!
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What Bankers Can Learn From Girl Scouts and First Year Law Students
I haven't been blogging much lately, but expect to get back in the swing of things this week as the worst of my writing and teaching pressures seem to be slowing down. Meanwhile, my better half, Marina Park, put up a great post (I confess to being biased) over at SF Gate, where she blogs at th...
Nathan, I'm with you re the visual. My mom was a great artist and i'm...well, I'm a trumpet player. oops. LOL But I really like your triad of skills - we actually don't have learning styles that vary that way (despite the hype) but we do have very strong preferences for how we operate.. and that history leads us to believe 9or not) in certain skill areas.
OTOH, Christopher, you make the case for being a better generalist. Ultimately, specialists work for generalists! The ultimate is to be a kickass generalist but have one killer speciality -- to be broad AND deep... but that's not easy.
Shana - an artist learning to code? Good on ya, that'll give you an enviable skill set. good luck with the studies!
Finslly, Erik, what you share seems sadly true. The hucksters ARE here. I'm involved with www.getyaro.com, a SM startup that was born at our Startup Weekend (I highly recommend it!) and they were smart enough to go get adult supervision (marketing, especially) immediately. Despite the barrage of bad math jokes on Twitter, the lead founder gets the marketing side & now working on re-doing UX/UI. Fun to see the path they're taking, compared to another SM startup that is all programmers! But to Dave's rant - will the investors get it?
Again, Dave, thanks for rant and to everyone for their comments.
NK in Boise
Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own Consumer Internet Dogfood
Haven't really gotten on a rant in awhile... guess i've been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i'm back in California for awhile, there's something i've been meaning to bring up that bothers me. It's kind of a dirty little secret of the startup industry, but there are very few good pro...
C'mon, Dave -tell us what you REALLY think... LOL
Like Heath said, don't give up. But it will take a while- the mental models (sctipts, maps, etc.) are indeed very different. It's not as bad as Wittgenstein's argument that different species can never communicate but... we do a lousy job uf understanding the mindsets of "others"
Cognitive neuroscience stuff aside - would you be interested in exploring the two seemingly obvious opportunities here?
1) It would seem there's a serious market for translators! (When I worked for a Wall Street firm they had "squires" whose role was to translate/connect the research nerds, the trading desk and the retail brokers who were pretty much 3 diff species, LOL) I didn't appreciate till, well your post here.
2)If VCs/angels don't get this... maybe WE should start an investment fund that looks for the opportunities that are missed (or screwed up?) by the, um, less aware? Would it be even more powerful at the seed stage?
(Or better at bridge/mezzanine?)
Anyway - thank you for a provocative post on a Sunday AM!
Norris
Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own Consumer Internet Dogfood
Haven't really gotten on a rant in awhile... guess i've been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i'm back in California for awhile, there's something i've been meaning to bring up that bothers me. It's kind of a dirty little secret of the startup industry, but there are very few good pro...
Great post, Andrew -will pass it along!
Norris
Career skills in the new (networked) world
Thomas Friedman's piece in the NYT this morning, The Do-It-Yourself Economy talks, in so many words, about the decomposition of production that has been taking place over the last four decades. This decomposition has financial and strategic origins as much as technological, with such milestones...
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