Category Archives: Business

Review: Consensus-Oriented Decision Making

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by sim

I took the opportunity to start this year’s reading with some more work-related material (even though the broader theme of skills in decision making and conflict resolution form important parts of my wider future-preparedness plan as well), I took a … Continue reading →

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Review: Seizing the White Space

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 by sim

In an effort to clear my to-read backlog before the year is over, I finished another business-oriented book; Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson. It’s a pretty standard fair innovation business … Continue reading →

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Review: Billion Dollar Lessons

Posted on Mar 30, 2011 by sim

Momentarily coming back to the world of business books, I read through Paul Carroll & Chunka Mui’s Billion Dollar Lessons: What you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last 25 years on my recent long flight. … Continue reading →

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Review: Myth of the Rational Market

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 by sim

I’ve long had the opinion that the financial markets are far from rational, and that the media, companies & market participants themselves dealing with them as rational – and, worse, rationalizing every strange market movement – is nothing short of … Continue reading →

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Most apps don’t make money. So?

Posted on Jul 26, 2010 by sim

One of the recent annoying trends in the mobile business domain has been the attitude towards apps. Most of the media extols apps as the next big thing, the gold rush everyone must get at now or miss billions of … Continue reading →

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