by divergence-academy | Jul 5, 2014 | Execution
All my learning has come from on-the-job experience, some management training, and through reading hundreds of business management books. Unfortunately, I do not remember which book I read to pick the following five simple rules of Strategic thinking. These rules have...
by divergence-academy | Dec 2, 2012 | Execution
What is Skeumorphism? Derived from the Greek words Skeuos, meaning vessel or tool, and morph, meaning shape, a skeuomorph is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a “derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the...
by divergence-academy | Dec 2, 2012 | Execution
I read the first positive review by Aaron C. Brown that came up on Amazon for Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new book Anti-fragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, and captured few points not just about the new book but how this book builds on Taleb’s popular book The...
by divergence-academy | Nov 3, 2012 | Execution
I found interesting list of ten things on Milton Glaser’s web site. I got there accidentally as I was reading about Simplicity of Innovations, Skeumorphism, and Modern Design. Less is not more is one of the ten things that Milton has learnt over his life time. You can...
by divergence-academy | Feb 12, 2012 | Execution
by divergence-academy | Feb 12, 2012 | Execution
Robert F. Kennedy said on the presidential campaign trail in 1968, “Our gross national product…counts air pollution and cigarette advertising and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break...
