OverHeard

Innovation doesn’t come out of love, but from hate

– Penn & Teller.

Brian Brushwood, quoting Penn and Teller in the 327th episode of TWIT (~1:21 hour timeframe). He goes on to say how, if you love something, you can only create a pale imitation of it (say a show or piece of art). But if you hate something, you create something that is better than the object you hate.

Profound 🙂

Eric Reis‘ defintion of a startup

A human institution designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty

In other words, you don’t really need to work at a startup or out of a garage to be an entrepreneur. You can do the same thing in a typical corporate setting.

BTW.. check out this very cool conversation between Leo Laporte and Eric at 

More tiers means more tears..

Keep it simple :).

Comment by Mark Horstman on his recent podcast regd managing a massive workload increase

We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are

I believe this a famous quote.. don’t know who the original author is. But wanted to note, since it is a pretty deep :).

I highly recommend Mark and his partner Mike’s podcast “Manager Tools” and “Career Tools” to every professional. Well worth the time.

I was interviewing a candidate for a job opening at my work. I asked him how he motivates his team and he made this comment about how you truly measure if you can motivate a person

Think of a 16 year old working part time at a retailer. She is just working to earn money to buy some lipstick or perfume. Think how you can motivate her to work on a thanksgiving weekend!!

Good article regd. communications  (verbal and email) on NY Times at http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/are-your-messages-being-heard/ .  I esp liked the comment about keeping messages short and smiling. We spend some much time at work (and most of that on email) in the modern work place. And I think these two things will make your colleagues appreciate you a lot more :).