Home Page 06-2022 [from DG.com – Import for Iterating & Experimenting … ie Innovating]
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Latest Articles
Why Sun Microsystems Failed
Everyone agrees Sun Microsystems made four major mistakes that led to their downfall. Are you making the same ones? This simple shift in thinking will help you avoid all four of them.
6 minute read.
10 Key Steps Microsoft Took To Transform Itself
In 2014, Microsoft was a toxic place and stumbling badly. Then new CEO Satya Nadell stepped in. Things have never been the same. Here are the top 10 key steps he took. Hint: you can take them too.
[OFF-3 – Divi|Site – Design Notes: Title adds html code for font-size: 22px; Text Module set at Text Size = 16px; Link to Article is set for the full Module; take source link off the image. Image size: set as ‘Thumbnail’ (150×150) when adding]
10 Key Steps Microsoft Took To Transform Itself
In 2014, Microsoft was a toxic place and stumbling badly. Then new CEO Satya Nadell stepped in. Things have never been the same. Here are the top 10 key steps he took. Hint: you can take them too.
[OFF-3 – Divi|Site – Design Notes: Title adds html code for font-size: 22px; Text Module set at Text Size = 16px; Link to Article is set for the full Module; take source link off the image. Image size set at 150×150]
Why Sun Microsystems Failed
Everyone agrees Sun Microsystems made four major mistakes that led to their downfall. Are you making the same ones? This simple shift in thinking will help you avoid all four of them.
[Added Mar. 1, 2023: Key Design idea is to have Small Images + Text on Home Page – as the Variable Rewards readers come to love getting — by GOING TO the Home Page.] [Added Feb. 8, 2023: Basic idea is use 2/3 1/3 columns on Home Page, similar to NYT and others. Left column would be for major UX, such as Lastest Article(s). Right column would be for links to key Quad 3 product such as the Newsletter.]
Why Sun Microsystems FailedEveryone agrees Sun Microsystems made four major mistakes that led to their downfall. Are you making the same ones? This simple shift in thinking will help you avoid all four of them.
6 minute read.
[OFF-3 – Divi|Site – Design Notes: Title adds html code for font-size: 22px; Text Module set at Text Size = 16px; Link to Article is set for the full Module; take source link off the image.]
Why Sun Microsystems Failed
Everyone agrees Sun Microsystems made four major mistakes that led to their downfall. Are you making the same ones? This simple shift in thinking will help you avoid all four of them.
[added Sept 15] Take a look around you. The truth is that nearly every company and organization today, maybe even the one you work for, could disappear in the next five to ten years — if it doesn’t more rapidly adapt to today’s accelerated pace of change. Companies like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Sun Microsystems are just a few where the leaders sat on their hands, misjudged realities, and paid the ultimate price.
[The above para was added on Sept 15][Aug. 30][move to internal notes]: basic thinking is this needs to be ONE short para, provide a link, and mention sample names. Names, names, names. Eg. co’s like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry and Sun Microsystems didn’t adopt these ways, and failed.]
This is a test of the Blurb Module | This would be the Title.
This would be the paragraph of Text describing the Article, conveying the key message and most intriguing point.
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The 21st Century High Performer
[May 23, 2023]: I had tried making the title “The Ethical Creative 21st Century High Performer,” but that’s too wordy. The title should be maintained as the crisp “The 21st Century High Performer,” and your intro’s and teaching must simply make clear that your ‘bias’ is that it means first and foremost a total focus on both ethics and creativity … not just ‘elite performance’ or ‘high performance.’ A quest for high performance without ethics rapidly decends into a tragic failure story. Consider Enron, Elizabeth Holmes, Wells Fargo, and the countless other failures brought down by hubris and arroganbce.] [May 4, 2023; draft idea] I believe that the only hope for humankind to survive is for everyone to become what I’ve called an ethical, creative 21st century High Performer. What does that mean? After studying 200+ cases of successful change, I found a remarkably consistent pattern. I believe this pattern of success is as true today as it has been for centuries. We just haven’t been paying attention. I simplified the pattern down to this four-square matrix.
A Thousand Life-changing Concepts in Your Pocket
[May 27, 2023]: I These right-column paragraphs would/should be kept short, and one of them could/should be this one – intro’g the core theme of how the goal is to take advantage of the science of learning to rapidly teach and help you memorably remember and apply hundreds of key first-principles concepts or what I call First-principles Mental Models. Articles are generally designed and written to focus on one core concept at a time, and maintain the focus on you you can as rapidly as possible put it into practice so that you both remember it deeply and enable it to play a positive role in transforming your life and work.
What are the core skills of a high performer? Research shows they are surprisingly consistent across virtually all fields. Best of all, these skills are all learnable. Read more …
[Mar. 18, 2023: Idea = all these Home Page Modules would be essentially Copywriting Intros to Key Content and FPMMs (First-Principle Mental Models)
Become a High Performer
What are the core skills of a high performer? Research shows they are surprisingly consistent across virtually all fields. Best of all, these skills are all learnable.
Which one is arguably the most important today? The ability to adapt to change and grow in your career. Without it, you can end up travelling down that undesirable path to a dead-end career, which can then turn the corner into demoralizing despair. It doesn’t have to be that way. [Test of the Text Color function inside the Text Module Content mode … the button A]
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Is Your Company a 21st Century High-Performing Organization?
[Added Mar. 1, 2023: Key Design idea is to have Small Images + Text on Home Page – as the Variable Rewards readers come to love getting — by GOING TO the Home Page.] [Added Feb. 8, 2023: Basic idea is use 2/3 1/3 columns on Home Page, similar to NYT and others. Left column would be for major UX, such as Lastest Article(s). Right column would be for links to key Quad 3 product such as the Newsletter.]
[added Sept 15] Take a look around you. The truth is that nearly every company and organization today, maybe even the one you work for, could disappear in the next five to ten years — if it doesn’t more rapidly adapt to today’s accelerated pace of change. Companies like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Sun Microsystems are just a few where the leaders sat on their hands, misjudged realities, and paid the ultimate price.
[The above para was added on Sept 15][Aug. 30][move to internal notes]: basic thinking is this needs to be ONE short para, provide a link, and mention sample names. Names, names, names. Eg. co’s like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry and Sun Microsystems didn’t adopt these ways, and failed.]
Are You a 21st Century High Performer?
What’s true for organizations is true for you as an individual. Failing to adapt to change and grow in your career can rapidly lead you down that undesirable path to a dead-end career and demoralizing despair. It doesn’t have to be that way. [Test of the Text Color function inside the Text Module Content mode … the button A]
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“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — Buckminster Fuller
The 21st Century High-Performing Organization
[added Sept 15] Take a look around you. The truth is that nearly every company and organization today, maybe even the one you work for, could disappear in the next five to ten years — if it doesn’t more rapidly adapt to today’s accelerated pace of change. Companies like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Sun Microsystems are just a few where the leaders sat on their hands, misjudged realities, and paid the ultimate price.
[The above para was added on Sept 15][Aug. 30][move to internal notes]: basic thinking is this needs to be ONE short para, provide a link, and mention sample names. Names, names, names. Eg. co’s like Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry and Sun Microsystems didn’t adopt these ways, and failed.]
The 21st Century High Performer
The 21st Century High Performer
Are you _____?
[Aug. 30: basic idea now is that the second para … would guide further UX action … ]
[Subheading or question … probably a question]
[Aug. 30: basic idea now is that the second para … would guide further UX action … ]
Two Proven Ways to Thrive in the 21st Century
See tests of ResponsiveVoice. [Comments after initial test. First, I think every effort should be made to do actual audio read by me. The artificial voice is too chinzy, and it sends the wrong message. The right message is that this is ME teaching and speaking and advising … not just words on a page that can be ‘played’ in audio format.]
[Text Module. Set up in June 2022.] This is the Page ‘Home Page 06-2022.’
The need is to totally design this so that it’s a great UX that leads the visitor to start exploring and consuming much of the 50k+ words now written … and that teach.
The need is also to totally ensure that the layout and experience on the Mobile devices are identical and great.