Funky Business

Funky Business by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom

ISBN 0273645919 An interesting, fun read. Lots of high energy motivational stuff about the nature of the new economy, the supreme importance of individual brains as the constrained value-driving resource, how organizations must change to be successful. As always with this kind of book, I had trouble telling how much was merely inspirational vs. actionable.

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There is a quotation here about failure that strikingly reminded me of a quotation I saw on wiki (but now can't find) about needing to fail faster:

• "Innovation requires experimentation. Experiments are risky. We can succeed or fail. So, an innovative environment must have an exceptionally high tolerance for mistakes...

According to Deepak Sethi of AT&T, the organization of tomorrow will actually demand mistakes and failures. We have got to fail faster to learn quicker and succeed sooner." -- BillBarnett

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