Nilofer Merchant: January 2007 Archives
Here you’ll find a collection of blog entries published during the month of Nilofer Merchant: January 2007.
2 Parts Enlightenment, 1 Part Truth, and a Smidge of Creation
By Nilofer Merchant on January 31, 2007
A colleague (on the client side) is preparing a Microsoft defense strategy, and talked to my team recently about what to do to prepare. We helped him in terms of process steps: the need to build a common data set,…
When in Doubt, Pilot
By Nilofer Merchant on January 29, 2007
Ever heard this? Let’s go 180 degrees in a different direction, at full speed, with everyone on board, and expect our current business to do great while we turn everything in a new direction. Yippee. Sound like a good idea…
Grow it .. bigger and wiser
By Nilofer Merchant on January 29, 2007
If you were to purposely grow your smarts, you might: - Surround yourself with more creative people, or - Study more (content) ideas, or - Talk more at length debating with others, or - Get better educated, right? I’m going…
Top 10 Trends for 2007
By Nilofer Merchant on January 27, 2007
For work this month, I wrote some “top 10 trends” for what my team and I think should matter to those high-tech firms that want to win… details of all of these are available here. Top 10 Trends for 2007…
What if I just say it louder?
By Nilofer Merchant on January 27, 2007
I’m reminded again that getting others to follow you is an art, not a science. When I set about setting the agenda for our kick-off for the year (January) company newsletter, I wanted to do something different than normal. Normal…
Worthy Adobe Intel
By Nilofer Merchant on January 24, 2007
Check out a good piece of early sleuthing by Malik on Flash as a fundamental platform for software 2.0. Apparently, Adobe’s purchase of amicma suggests some new aspirations for the Flash technology giant. Let’s not forget the Adobe has the…
There was this whale…
By Nilofer Merchant on January 23, 2007
I’m envious of people who can come up with crisp clear descriptions of things, and especially if they can make an analogy that causes it to stick in the mind. One I heard yesterday: That would be as hard as…
It’s January 17th, no 18th, soon to be 19th…
By Nilofer Merchant on January 18, 2007
I turned around for just a wee second, and you were gone. Took a week off of work before the holidays for shutdown and break, then a week to sit on the beach and recoup and then realized that —-whoa…