Don’t waste people’s time. Help them do more

The gap between what is right now and where others are become very obvious when you go from one extreme to another. This past week I spent a little time with a friend I’ve known since kindergarten as he just opened a restaurant in Mexico and I went over to see how he was doing. [...]

Author: Jorge Comments: View Comments Date: 9 Aug 2010 More: Read more
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What are your needs? Ask Twitter

Twitter is vast repository of information, conversations and individual thoughts. It’s hard to keep up and make sense of all of it but sometimes you get some concrete insights from people like Tom Peters telling you he’s underserved:  

Author: Jorge Comments: View Comments Date: 6 Jan 2010 More: Read more
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Disrupt yourself to change the game you play in

If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules. – Paul Arden   All a disruptor really does is change something from one state to another by breaking patterns. Google is a typical disruptor, they seek ways to ‘disrupt’ a familiar flow in how things get done to another and then [...]

Author: Jorge Comments: View Comments Date: 16 Dec 2009 More: Read more
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