Monday, March 29, 2010

Karioke Capitalism

Check out this radio broadcast on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on a new book called "Karaoke Capitalism: Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World." Ridderstrale and Nordstrom focus the challenges of business leadership in a world increasingly defined by individualism. "Karaoke" capitalism refers to the philosophy of imitation, ingrained into the corporate mindset by such popular concepts as benchmarking and best practice. For Ridderstrale and Nordstrom, the only way to survive is to chuck convention, to embrace your company's individual personality and promote it through everything you do

http://broadcast.uwex.edu:8080/ramgen/wpr/bok/bok090524b.rm

Segement starts at 42:24 and goes to 46:06

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Interview with 3M CEO George Buckley

From a WSJ article 3/1/2010 "At 3M, Innovation Comes in Tweaks and Snips" : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575075590963046162.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"Everybody wants to find out how to can creativity. You can't. Creativity comes from freedom, not control."
George Buckley 3M

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