Google Ideas - Encore l'innovation

Après la bourse de 10M$ pour aider le monde - Project 10 to the 100 - Google devrait bientôt lancer Google Ideas, a global initiatives 'think tank' office inside of Google and will be run out of New York [...] to spearhead initiatives to apply technology solutions to problems faced by the developing world.

People interest

Un type de chronique bien écrite, intéressante à lire, que j'aurais aimé écrire.

Absolut Brooklyn

Portrait de Union Pacific

Un portrait de Fortune.

Des usines chinoises en Amérique

Ce n'est pas récent, mais c'est de plus en plus fréquent.

Facebook - le film

Le trailer et l'article dans Fortune.

Succession chez Berkshire

Li Lu ou David Sokol ?

De la grosse embauche

10,000 personnes en 5 ans.
Comment gérer ça ?

Histoire atroce de service à la clientèle

Dell, ouch.

Every company has a culture, and that culture is what guides employees’ thinking. This isn’t the behavior of an isolated few. It’s a group behavior born of an environment where nothing is more important than the numbers. Unfortunately for Dell, the only known cure for such a failure is leadership.

L'équipe de leadership

While each member had his or her own unique strengths, the most cohesive and successful teams possessed broader groupings of strengths. So we went back and initiated our most thorough review of this research to date. From this dataset, four distinct domains of leadership strength emerged: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.

(tiré du Gallup Management Journal)

Randonnée près de Boulder

Long Lake, près de Brainard Lake.
Aucun scenic shitter.


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Mickey Drexler - De Gap à J.Crew

À mon avis, il a réussi son pari.

La société empathique

Un peu dans la même lignée que ce vidéo.

L'avenir du journalisme - encore et toujours

Dans le Washington Post,

Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces.

Everything is different today, and it's much more confusing. For one thing, there are no real deadlines anymore, because stories are constantly being updated for the Web. All stories are due now, and most of the constipated people are gone, replaced by multiplatform idea triage specialists. In this hectic environment, mistakes are more likely to be made, meaning that a story might identify Uzbekistan as "a subspecies of goat."

Le NY Times devient partiellement payant, à la WSJ.

L'avenir passe par Flipboard ?

Point de vue pertinent de Nicolas Langelier. À quand une nouvelle publication ?

Et un autre en extra sur l'avenir de la musique, aka Pandora.

L'avenir du train en Chine

According to the new railway network expansion program unveiled in 2008, China will have 120,000-kilometer-long railway by 2020, of which 16,000 kilometers are dedicated passenger lines where trains could reach a speed of 200km/h and above.

"By 2012, about 12,000-13,000 kilometers long dedicated passenger lines will be put into operation and I believe our transportation capacity could increase dramatically. It will not be so hard to get a railway ticket then as it is now," Professor Li explained.

China is not only endeavoring to perfect its domestic rail transportation grid but also has an ambitious plan to cooperate with other countries to connect the Eurasia with high speed railway network.

In early March, Wang Mengshu, a senior consultant on China's domestic high-speed rail project, told Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post that China plans to extend its domestic high speed rails to Central, East and Southeast Asia and is in negotiations with relevant countries.

If the great plan could come true, the newly-built network will connect the current high-speed rail network in Europe, which means passengers will take only two days traveling from London to Beijing, according to British Newspaper the Daily Mail.

"Technically speaking, the plan is totally feasible. (With such a network), many (goods) could be transported via the high speed rail rather then relying on ocean shipping," said Li.

(tiré du China Daily)

Campagne de pub d'Ikea

À mon avis, géniale.

Imagine Cup

Concours de Microsoft misant sur l'innovation.

Toyota - The workers knew (of course)

The basic thrust of it is that employee representatives at Toyota had informed senior management in 2006 that they were concerned about falling quality at the company.

This story tells us two things. First, listening to employees (consultation) may take time but can save you from greater problems in due course. And second, staff associations or “approved” unions, while more polite and restrained, may not give you the independent feedback managers sometimes need.

(tiré du Financial Times)

Lhasa de Sela avec Patrick Watson

Fiume Night 11 _ Lhasa de Sela & Patrick Watson _ Montreal, april 2009 from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

Le storytelling par Ira Glass

L'art du storytelling, raconté par Ira Glass, le producteur de This American Life.