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Refinement vs Exploration

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:18:35 +0000

Saw this image and fell in love as it illustrates a great point I’ve always struggled to visualize on paper like this:

via Criticism and Two Way Streets | The Intercom Blog.

Persuading With Facts Is Not Enough: Dawkins vs. Tyson – YouTube

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:50:53 +0000

Dawkins vs. Tyson – YouTube.

Improving Brighton Boulevard

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:46:14 +0000

Lots of interesting improvements are on the horizon for Brighton Blvd in Denver. Pretty interesting report to look through.

Brighton Boulevard: Managing Traffic while Creating Place | Context Sensitive Solutions.org – A CSS support center for the transportation community..

jyoseph.com » Make your product photos pop with a white background using photoshop

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:42:58 +0000

I was taking some product shots this week – and this was a great guide for what to do after you take your mediocre shots:

jyoseph.com » Make your product photos pop with a white background using photoshop.

You’re Hired to Lead a Startup, What’s First?

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:32:11 +0000

I like this part:

When I ask an Exec about their Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and they answer “Fortune 500” or “we’re a horizontal play,” I know I’m in trouble. Growing companies will often argue they can sell to anybody. But to scale, you need to know where you’ll find repeatable & profitable success.

Defining our ICP isn’t about creating a named account list, but it is about identifying where our optimal buyers reside. Including:

Embracing the philosophy that not all prospects are equal

Focusing outbound activity towards the accounts with the highest likelihood of success

Triaging inbound activity – by aligning effort to opportunity

Identifying market segments with future potential

The ICP should be central to a host of sales and marketing discussions and decisions.

And this part:

You’re Hired to Lead a Startup, What’s First?.

Authors at Google Presents Stephanie Palmer: Good in a Room – YouTube

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:56:42 +0000

I just came across this again – I remember watching it a while back – great suggestions:

Authors at Google Presents Stephanie Palmer: Good in a Room – YouTube.

40 Useful PSDs From Dribbble – DesignM.ag

Grant Grigorian — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:11:15 +0000

Might be useful for UI designing.

40 Useful PSDs From Dribbble – DesignM.ag.

Materials requirements planning (MRP)

Grant Grigorian — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:45:22 +0000

This is a great explanation for beginners like me.

Materials requirements planning (MRP).

The Lizard Brain

Grant Grigorian — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:08:31 +0000

More on the theme of doing stuff, vs thinking about doing stuff.

Re-discovered this today:

About this presentation

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to “thrash at the beginning” of projects so that we can ship on time and on budget.

Thriving in volatile environments, a talk by Dr. Gregory Shea

Grant Grigorian — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:18:57 +0000

Well worth watching if you work in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. I liked that Dr. Shea gives lots of practical advice about how to handle yourself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZyrD4DzfDk[/youtube]

From: AtGoogleTalks | Mar 16, 2011

Dr. Gregory Shea works with organizations and executives to enhance individual, group, and organizational performance. Today’s complex and volatile environment demands unprecedented creativity and execution from leaders, their teams, and their organizations… day after day. Dr. Shea tailors his world class education and over three decades of experience to the particular needs of his clients. His long term and ever evolving work with clients, most of whom dwell in the C-suite, testifies to the depth and flexibility of this customization. His writing and his teaching of executives at Wharton manifest a similar commitment to and capacity for careful, thoughtful application of good theory and good practice to today’s demanding world of work.