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This is my portable indicator now we are going, dear humanity …

Here is nice speech of Steve Jobs

The last words is “… Stay hungry, stay foolish …”
Actually whole word is foolish now and very soon will be hungry

I was waiting for new macbook pretty long time.
And here is it - I had to drive 40 minutes to buy in Miami because in Ft. Lauderdale where no mac yet.

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I’ve just scanned(read) last issue of Harvard Business Review and there is article about how to make teams/companies creative

* … remember that you are not the sole fount of ideas

* be the appreciative audience
* ask the inspiring questions
* allow ideas to bubble up from the workforce

* … enable collaboration

* combat the lone inventor myth
(this is very actual thing for me now around allwomenstalk.com)
* define “superstar” as someone who helps others succeed
* use “coordinators totems” - metaphors, analogies, and stories - to help teams conceptualize together

* embrace diversity

* get people in with different backgrounds/experience to work together
* encourage to gain different experience

… can’t remember

* … accept the inevitability and utility of failure

* create psychological safety to maximize learning from failure
* recognize different kinds of failure and show how to use it

* … motivate with intellectual challenge

* protect front end from commercial pressure
* clear paths through the bureaucracy for ideas
* let people do “good work”

nice tips - isn’t it?

For me it’s still weird moment

I can imagine my grand mom even with toaster