Disrupting Posterous

But teamwork isn't technology

From The New York Times:

 CORNER OFFICE: In a Near-Death Event, a Corporate Rite of Passage
By ADAM BRYANT

  
John T. Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems, says he learned an early lesson from Jack Welch: great companies arise from their biggest failures....

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02corner.html

  

  

 The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

Hang out with weird

Leap and the net will appear. -Julia Cameron

Lest we believe the US has a monopoly on political wackiness

From The New York Times:

 America Hears a Gaffe, Russia Sees a Plot
By ELLEN BARRY

  
It will be hard to convince the Kremlin that Vice President Joseph R.
Biden Jr.’s comments on Russia don’t indicate a deeper drama....

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/weekinreview/02barry.html

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

An interesting take on energy use

http://www.greenerdesign.com/blog/2009/07/29/energy-all-about-flow

  

  
You must do the thing you think you cannot do -Elanor Roosevelt

Printing on both sides reduces deficit by 0.006%

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Abraham Lincoln

One way to change your customer relationship

http://www.twistimage.com/mobile/blog/archives/how-big-business-is-on-twitter-without-being-on-twitter/index.php

  

  
Adults are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting -Richard Pascale

Shocked and appalled

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. -Anatole France