I read with interest (and even some excitement) this week’s announcement from the Data Portability Workgroup that both Google and Facebook had signed on to (in principle at least) make their users’ social graphs and other information portable across applications. It makes perfect sense that these Web leaders would be among the first to see continue…
Since I began my professional “career” I’ve gravitated steadily from larger to smaller organizations. At first this was an intuitive rather than a considered objective (I’m an INTP, remember?), but over time it’s become an explicit requirement. At one point I tried to codify the “acceptable” size for an organization in terms of numbers of continue…
I’m cynical enough about Presidential politics that it’s hard to admit, but I’m genuinely excited by Barack Obama’s candidacy and have been steadily raising the personal stakes of my commitment to his campaign over the past year. His win tonight in Iowa is another strong puff of wind in that sail, and for the first continue…
I first encountered the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a 23-year-old project manager at AT&T Universal Card Services (brief digression: the credit card industry is a great example of how the Hippocratic Oath of Business is violated every day by some of our most trusted brands). Every “manager” in the company was required to complete continue…
I turned my work brain off somewhere around my last post (December 21) and spent the past two weeks playing with my kids, spending time with my wife, cooking (and eating) great meals and catching up with friends and family. It was great to tune out for a while, but now I’m sitting in front continue…
Here’s an excellent, timely addendum to my recent post on mining and remixing your personal data silos: Marshall Kirpatrick at Read/Write Web just did a piece on an MIT researcher named Sandy Pentland who – with funding from cellphone giant Nokia – is mining hundreds of thousands of hours of cellphone call data – including continue…
Q: Chris, It seems that you have a pretty good understanding of the business world. I, myself, have stayed mostly in the educational culture. I’ve played around a bit with the idea of starting a business after I get my bachelors in Math & Physics this coming year. What things, would you say one needs continue…
My wife and I met in business school (a statistically unlikely prospect if you stop to think about it). One of the many relationship advantages this confers is a large shared vocabulary of concepts we can use not only to communicate about our work lives, but that we often apply (sometimes in jest, sometimes not) continue…
In 1999 my partners and I sold our 50-person Web consulting shop Adjacency to Sapient, a public IT consultancy. The next two years of my life were a complete blur of post-merger integration, recruiting and discipline development to flesh out Sapient’s nascent e-business consulting capability, plus an ongoing role selling and delivering client engagements to continue…
One of the big ideas we were exploring at Judy’s Book was the topic of tacit or latent knowledge. Everyone’s head is filled with a richly personal blend of facts and opinions: where to get the best burrito in San Francisco, my current favorite band, the name and contact information of my childhood friend who continue…