going up

..it is fun!A lot of fun! Just keep the right perspective, whatever the new view will be, it will be a new one. Don't forget the efforts made to get there, and make the best out of it!

Leapfrog

It has always been written that cultural changes are the most difficult ones in an organization. It is very very true, and the main problem is that if people do not embrace it, they have to be let go, or the whole process will fail.
Failing in applying such a major shift could lead to a failure for the whole company, and for sure in not jumping to the next curve.
Upgrades or leapfrog innovation?
I believe only leapfrog one can lead to real new growth.

Finding the right partner is a must to succeed! Even in making a good breakfast!

These are really the most powerful 2 words ever combined to generate an incredible chemical and spiritual reaction...good or bad!

Break

Luckily he stopped me from answering to a nasty email...

Have you ever been frustrated...

...when after waiting for a long time to get the attention of someone, and you get it, in the right moment you realize it and decide to get the best out of it..it's already too late? He's already looking at someone else!

Did your grandfather used to take you to the trainstation too?

Mine used to, and I was fascinated by those big trains passing by the station.
We used to spend hours watching the trains going by, looking at the people jumping on and off.
As soon as the high speed train started in Italy, I loved it.

Love me not

Sometimes, one wrong step can destroy a love. We have to be careful, if you break that delicate undefined magic link, at the base of love, a code is broken (as a wise friend of mine said).
Think always about your next step.

The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki...but applied to Mr.Tyson, my cat

I'm getting tired of writing about lies, so today I'm covering truths. Specifically, the truths of innovation. I hold these truths to not be self-evident; hence we see so little innovation.

1. Jump to the next curve-->he does it at least 5 times a day, trying new things and inventing new jumps from one place to another in the home
2. Don't worry, be crappy-->when he does jump to the next curve (see above), he doesn't care if something got broken in the jump...if he succeeds in reaching a higher height and having a better view he is happy
   
3. Churn, baby, churn. -->He does try new version of his innovation, lately he wanted to try the jungle jump, junmping on his sister (Cocò) and then hanging on the big lamp in the living room (ver 2.0)
   
4. Don't be afraid to polarize people. -->It's just fine for him if he makes us happy, and totally doesn't care about the rest
   
5. Break down the barriers. -->he tried to jump into the oven, he did try to jump into the shower, he did dare to sleep on my wife's luxury bags...he does brake the barriers
   
6. “Let a hundred flowers blossom.” -->he wakes you up in the middle of the night, "miaoing" a bit...and he just wait for our reaction...food?caresses?
   
7. Think digital, act analog. -->he does cool actions, but at the end it's all about having fun, getting food and be on top of our mind and heart
   
8. Never ask people to do what you wouldn't do. -->well this is hard...he does want us to clean up his little bathroom
   
9. Don't let the bozos grind you down. -->no worries, no bozos can convince him not to jump higher and higher in the home
   

;)
Read more: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_art_of_inno.html#ixzz0hgiL2ZID

Sometimes, bad pictures contains big emotions, and new loves....these are Cocò and Mike...on top of luxury bags.

Seeds

People who believe in building something with another person can do incredible and marvelous things...and continuing a very very long path

bottlenecks!

In a sequential processes if only one part of the chain has a defect, the whole process is delayed or screwed up. It happens that even in a 2.0 world people impose this for the sake of the old style of control, closing a parallel or "entropy like" work process with a bottle neck, loosing all the advantages of leveraging great minds working in parallels teams. Organizational (frustration above all) and business (stop to innovation, delays...) problems immediately arise.
This is particularly bad when it happens in a time where all organizations should work in parallel processes or in an entropy model, letting the great to come out with few ground rules set.
Old style managers must make any efforts it takes to change.

In life we should all jump sometime

...dont't always take things so so seriously, make a jump, look at it from a higher perspective and wonder how the picture can change!

After the last backstage I had the privilege to enter, I am always wondering what all those people running around a fashion show do. The are the models, the stylist, the designers, the owners, the hairdressers, the make up artists, those who dress the models....but still there are other tons of people, acting like stars that do nothing....except acting like starts...it is so funny and fascinating