Awesomeness

Interesting article on HBR: The Awesomeness Manifesto

1. I think he's spot on about the 'Innovation' hype.
2. He's also right about Apple. In any Apple store, the breadth of knowledge of the staff and, after you've bought it, the sheer superiority of the product to older editions and competing products is palpable.
3. I'm not entirely sure of this 'Awesomeness' that the author is selling. Yes, real innovation must yield superior benefits to the customer but much of innovation is only so from the producer's point of view. However, if a producer is not so convinced to create and put the product out there for customer validation, how would we know what is real innovation? If all innovation turned out to be genuinely so, there would be no risk in entrepreneurship. In my opinion, we'll continue to have fads. Depending on how pervasive the fads are before they fail, we'll have recessions hence business cycles will continue to be a fact of our lives. Those 'innovations' that survive will drive us forward. Recessions (and the 'value' destroyed) are simply the price we pay for development. Development is an iterative process.

Kwaku Kufuor

www.kwakukufuor.net

The link is to a friend's website. I think he's great. If anyone in the North-East (USA) has need for some serious photography, drop him an email at kwaku.kufuor@gmail.com.

Great pictures!

Another useful link

For Microsoft Excel users. There may be little here for advanced users but a great link all the same.

http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelformulas/Excel_Formulas_How_to_Create_Excel_Formulas.htm

Yaw