The book, Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, aims to use the framework of design thinking to address the “wicked problem” (i.e big problems) of designing your life. I was particularly intrigued by the book due to its focus on using the journal and writing as a tool to designing your life. Below is the book summary and notes by each chapter of the book. Start Where You Are “Start” by reflecting on the core areas of …
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Microsoft is acquiring Github. Having followed Nadella's strategy, I am not surprised. Here are three points to understand why this is a win-win! …
Anyone who produces something, including myself, experiences the conflict between the quality and the quantity of work. Should I produce more work (quantity) or better (quality) work? Whether it be writing a new blog post, sending another email, reading more books, another sales call or meeting more people. If one focuses on the quality of work alone, they risk not producing enough, taking too long, or procrastinating. On the other hand, if one focuses on quantity alone they may risk …
Clayton Christensen’s Institute has published insightful reports for aspiring healthcare entrepreneurs and leaders. In an earlier blog post, I summarized Christensen’s report on healthcare innovation, “How disruptive innovation can finally revolutionize Healthcare” (2017). In this blog post, I will summarize another one of their reports on healthcare, “Health for hire: unleashing patient potential to reduce chronic disease costs” (October 2017) Executive summary and overview of the report America’s epidemic of chronic disease affects more than half of the American population and …
Clayton Christensen’s report on healthcare innovation, “How disruptive innovation can finally revolutionize Healthcare” (2017) is an insightful read for aspiring healthcare entrepreneurs and leaders. Breakdown and Focus of the Report The report is broken down into two parts; Why has the healthcare been so resistant to disruption? This focuses on “why disruption is not taken place in the delivery practices of hospitals and physician groups” Where disruptive solutions are taking root – The part 2 “zeros in on how disruptive …