tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post5477344320505812102..comments2024-03-25T02:53:48.654-07:00Comments on SVB on Wine: Experiment or DieRob McMillan rmcmillan@svb.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12396624790174552807noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post-42841412977453584452013-10-15T00:45:54.898-07:002013-10-15T00:45:54.898-07:00Rob,
I invite your readers to seek out this artic...Rob,<br /><br />I invite your readers to seek out this article.<br /><br />~~ Bob<br /><br /><br />From The Wall Street Journal<br />(October 12, 2013, Page C1ff):<br /><br />“Scott Adams' Secret of Success: Failure;<br />What's the best way to climb to the top? Be a failure.”<br /><br />[Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304626104579121813075903866.html?dsk=y]<br /><br />By Scott Adams<br />“The Saturday Essay”<br /><br />[ Mr. Adams is the creator of Dilbert. Adapted from his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big," to be published by Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA), on October 22. ]<br />Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post-62372620193406434002013-10-12T03:00:30.261-07:002013-10-12T03:00:30.261-07:00From BusinessWeek “Ideas: Books” Section
(October ...From BusinessWeek “Ideas: Books” Section<br />(October 8, 2007, Page 104):<br /><br />“Throw Away the Cookie Cutter”<br /><br />[Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_41/b4053112.htm]<br /><br />Book review by Jenna McGregor<br /><br />“The Future of Management”<br />By Gary Hamel with Bill Breen<br />(Harvard Business School Press; 272 pp; $26.95)<br /><br />There’s a reason boards of directors can pluck so many CEOs out of one company and plop them into another: When it comes to management ideas and tools, many companies are surprisingly similar. They have the same hierarchies and budgeting process. They have “balanced scorecards” that measure performance. They benchmark their peers, adopt “best practices,” and seemingly all house an army of Six Sigma black belts standing ready to defend quality control.<br /> <br />Such management monotony, writes Gary Hamel in “The Future of Management,” is evidence that WHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING ORGANIZATIONS OR LEADING TEAMS, THERE’S LITTLE EXPERIMENTATION. In this lively manifesto, written with Fast Company veteran Bill Breen, Hamel argues that "management innovation" -- rethinking decision-making practices, organizational structures, and the demands on employees' time -- is crucial for coping with today's business challenges. . . .<br /><br />Hamel's best company examples . . . look at how large, traditional corporations have EXPERIMENTED with new management ideas. . . .<br /><br /><br />AND WHO IS GARY HAMEL? READ ON . . .<br /><br />From The Wall Street Journal “Marketplace” Section<br />(May 5, 2008, Page B1ff):<br /><br />“New Breed of Business Gurus Rises”<br /><br />[ Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120994594229666315.html ]<br /><br />[See accompanying exhibits]<br /><br />By Erin White<br />Staff Reporter<br /><br />The guru game is changing.<br /><br />Psychologists, journalists and celebrity chief executives crowd the top of a ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal. The results, based on Google hits, media mentions and academic citations, RANKED AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT GARY HAMEL NO. 1.<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />Dr. Hamel rose to the top spot from No. 7 in the 2003 ranking. He's best-known for writing about corporate strategy. His newest book, "The Future of Management," released last year, explores companies such as Google Inc. to tap managers' interest in new ways to run their businesses.<br /><br />. . .<br /><br /> <br />Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal “Marketplace” Section<br />(May 5, 2008, Page B6):<br /><br />“Quest for Innovation, Motivation Inspires the Gurus”<br /><br />[ Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120994652485566323.html ]<br /><br />By Erin White<br />Staff Reporter<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />• Gary Hamel, 53 years old, is a prolific writer and speaker . . .<br /><br />What's his secret? "He's just got a good sense of the managerial zeitgeist," says Thomas H. Davenport, who compiled the rankings. At a time when businesspeople worry that traditional management techniques are losing effectiveness, Dr. Hamel has written a book examining new approaches. "The Future of Management," published in October, uses case studies from Google Inc. and Gore-Tex maker W.L. Gore to shed light on management innovation.<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />Dr. Hamel says his latest book sprang from years of conversations with frustrated managers. "It seemed to me that getting large organizations to be persistently innovative was akin to getting a dog to walk on its hind legs," he says. "The moment you turned your back, it was down on all fours again." He argues that long-term success for companies stems more from the way they are managed than from their strategy or products.<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post-73866167365700269102013-10-12T02:28:22.422-07:002013-10-12T02:28:22.422-07:00[Deleted for typos and re-posted.]
ROB,
A TWO PA...[Deleted for typos and re-posted.]<br /><br />ROB,<br /><br />A TWO PART COMMENT.<br /><br />~~ BOB<br /><br />Excerpts from The Wall Street Journal Online<br />(April 30, 2008):<br /><br />“Numbers Guy Interview: Leonard Mlodinow”<br /><br />[Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/numbers-guy-interview-leonard-mlodinow-329/]<br /><br />By Carl Bialik<br />“The Numbers Guy” Blog<br /><br />[Mlodinow is a lecturer at Caltech who has collaborated on two books with Stephen Hawking.]<br /><br />WSJ: Just because a certain human achievement -- say, clutch hitting, or successful stock picking -- exhibits the normal statistical variation, does that necessarily mean the best performers were just LUCKY? Or is there something about human intentionality that makes it possible that the best performers really did exhibit extraordinary skill and were deserving of the result?<br /><br />Mr. Mlodinow: Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone’s focus, hard work, etc. But CHANCE also matters. And since there are few situations outside the science laboratory in which the random influences can be eliminated, LUCK is almost always a part of the statistical variation we observe in people’s feats.<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />WSJ: Might we need to proceed irrationally in our lives to SUCCEED? In other words, if we really believed that so much of SUCCESS was the result of LUCK, wouldn’t a lot of us just give up trying?<br /><br />Mr. Mlodinow: Some theorize that this is the evolutionary reason that we like to assume we are in control, even when we clearly aren’t. That may be so, but I don’t mourn the role of LUCK, I celebrate it. All else equal, it is a lot more fun not knowing how your book will do, or how your life will turn out, than it would be if everything could be determined by a logical calculation. Moreover, the fact that LUCK matters means you can help yourself by being persistent. A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude SUCCESS on the next try. <br /><br />As Thomas J. Watson, the highly successful IBM pioneer, said:<br /><br />“IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED, DOUBLE YOUR FAILURE RATE.”<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />AND SEE THIS ARTICLE:<br /><br />From BusinessWeek “Cover Story” Section<br />(July 10, 2006, Page 42ff):<br /><br />“How Failure Breeds Success;<br />Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it.<br />The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them."<br /><br />[Link: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-07-02/how-failure-breeds-success ]<br /><br />By Jena McGregor<br />Staff WriterBob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post-30775326336827478312013-10-12T02:22:37.984-07:002013-10-12T02:22:37.984-07:00Rob,
I have been on a quixotic quest for two year...Rob,<br /><br />I have been on a quixotic quest for two years to answer this question:<br /><br />"Does anyone use carbonic maceration to make WHITE wine?" <br /><br />I have posed this question to enology professors, winemakers, Masters of Wine, a Master Sommelier, wine writers, wine importers/distributors, and wine merchants. <br /><br />The answers that come back: "Not that I'm aware of."<br /><br />And yet . . . when seeking to avoid the extraction of skin tannins from pink or red skinned "white wine" grapes such as Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer, this red winemaking technique might yield satisfying results.<br /><br />In a world of largely undifferentiated domestic white wines, violating the shibboleths of conventional wisdom by adopting a red winemaking technique to make white wine could be an eye-opener.<br /><br />And because I am not a winemaker trained by UC Davis or Fresno State who has drunk the Kool-Aid, I can ask the village idiot question: "If not -- why not?"<br /><br />Bob<br />Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941731830705031230.post-67996119096646376932013-10-12T02:18:30.705-07:002013-10-12T02:18:30.705-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.com