Does Work Suck?
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Aug 01, 2011 | 120 Comments

It's just another manic Monday
I wish it were a Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday

The Bangles, Manic Monday, 1986

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Management writer and author, Philip Whiteley, questions in his latest book, 'Meet The New Boss'

Betting on Discovery : 'Little Bets' book review
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Jun 20, 2011 | 218 Comments

 "The way to begin is with little bets ... "

Check out the latest Management Sushi book review in the Cool Books section here. This review looks at ‘Little Bets: How breakthrough

Confident about the F-word? Or set for Epic Fail?
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 207 Comments

The F-Word : Friend or Foe?

How confident are you about the F-word? Gordon Ramsay has certainly got a handle on it. But that's the wrong F-word! The F-word in question is failure. Business failure and how to handle and learn from some of its toughest lessons.

Threadless : 10 years of Crowdsourced Cool
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 175 Comments

Threadless T-shirt design :  'Pandamonium' - by Ross Zietz.

Threadless, the hugely successful Chicago-based online T-shirt business - an early pioneer of crowdsourced user-submitted community-driven design - is ten years old this year. Co-founder Jake

'Delivering Happiness' : Zappos Book Review!
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 314 Comments

  [Image Source : www.spaceputty.com ]

"There's three types of happiness and really happiness is about being able to combine pleasure, passion, and purpose in one's personal life. I think it's helpful and useful to actually think about all three in terms of how you can make customers happier, employees happier, and ultimately, investors happier."

Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos

Seth Godin's Linchpin : The Indispensable Manifesto
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 175 Comments

"Shepard Fairey didn't seek to monetize the Obama Hope poster. He gave it away with a single-minded obsession". Seth Godin, Linchpin, January 2010

I have been a keen follower of Seth Godin's blog for some time [see the Management Sushi blogroll!]

Survival of the Fastest : An interview with Google
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 150 Comments

In the midst of the full-blown global financial crisis last April, Google, telegraph.co.uk and London Business School joined forces to launch an innovative thought leadership channel for business leaders. Survival of the Fastest, hosted on YouTube, duly went live. Designed as an online thought leadership community for business leaders, the new content-rich YouTube channel would be able to

Web 2.0 Internships spark Transatlantic Debate
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & CMI's @agathatheintern on Mar 28, 2011 | 144 Comments

Friday 14 August saw the debate about internships in a Web 2.0 age become a hot button topic across the online airwaves. Seth Godin kicked off the debate by posting his latest blog Free Work v Internships which argued for the value of a month of free hard work "to create a chunk of experience that's priceless" on a Gen Y resume.

Godin referenced 22 year-old

Going Inside the Meltdown with "In Fed we Trust" - [See Cool Books for full review!]
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 139 Comments

As leading New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani said, in her recent book review of David Wessel's ‘In Fed We Trust', "it would have been hard to imagine a book about the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department making it onto people's must-read

Has Management 2.0 gone into a tailspin?
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Mar 28, 2011 | 339 Comments

The dawning of this post-crisis world sees Management at some kind of crunch point. The global economy is only just beginning to shake itself out from its worst crisis in living memory. The most fragile of recoveries is expected in the short term. Although this doesn't prevent Masters of the Universe of the Banking World being reborn at an unusually rapid rate.

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