Blue Ocean Strategy International Best seller W. Chan Kim (著), Renee Mauborgne (著)
以下アマゾンから抜粋： Written by the business world's new gurus, "Blue Ocean Strategy" continues to challenge everything you thought you knew about competing in today's crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth. And the business world has caught on - companies around the world are skipping the bloody red oceans of rivals and creating their very own blue oceans. With over one million copies sold world wide, "Blue Ocean Strategy" is quickly reaching "must read" status among smart business readers. Have you caught the wave?
"You have to improve what you are doing but you also have to find entirely new and better ways to do it."
"You have to do something significantly smarter to get significantly better results."
PAINTING THE VISION "The lateral leader invests in painting a picture of where the organization is headed. There is plenty of hype talked about 'vision', and it is easy to become skeptical about it, but a vision is important..."
"Vision statements should be short and inspiring. They should avoid vague and woolly cliches about outstanding customer service. The vision should not be restricted to today's type of business. It must set a goal that gives employees enormous freedom in finding ways to achieve it."
"To construct a corporate vision you need to consider four components. These are your purpose, your mission, your culture and your values. The purpose is the fundamental reason for the existence of the organization. The mission expresses the purpose as a strategic goal. The culture defines the style of the organization - how it does things. The values are the beliefs of the organization - what it stands for. These four elements underpin the vision, which is an inspiring statement of the destination of the company."
"if you can do this then there are three big gains for the organization:....1)people share a common goal, 2) it means that more responsibility can be delegated, and 3) people will be more creative and contribute more ideas if they know that there are unsolved challenges that lie ahead."
COMMUNICATING "In order to transform the organization you have to use every method of communication to keep people focused on the goals and energized in their search for innovative solutions."
"Jack Welch, CEO of GE, 'Whenever I had an idea or message I wanted to drive into the organization I could not say it enough. I repeated it over and over at every meeting and review. I always felt I had to be "over the top" to get hundreds of people behind an idea'."
"Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. there's nothing more important."
Directed by Gregor Jordan. With Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke. A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980's Los Angeles, centered on an ...
"In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
"The conventional leader is easily recognized as a goal-oriented, decisive person who is well suited to a structured environment such as a mature corporation, government department or the military. Lateral leaders, on the other hand, adopt a different kind of approach to reaching goals - they are much more focused on the creativity and innovation of the team."
"Successful leaders combine the qualities of the conventional leader and the lateral leader."
"Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with the imagination, vision and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands. This requires conventional and lateral leadership skills."
"WHAT INNOVATIONS HAVE YOU IMPLEMENTED THAT HAD POSITIVE IMPACTS ON CUSTOMERS?"
"Just doing better what you do today is not enough"
"There is only one way out. Do something that the world has not seen before. Innovate so that you are, for a moment, unique and uniquely competitive."
"He or she focuses on developing the skills of the team in innovation, creativity, risk taking and entrepreneurial endeavor. The lateral leader manages change by initiating it."
"LATERAL THINKING = Thinking that seeks new ways of looking at a problem rather than proceeding by logical steps."
"Uncontrolled creativity without any discipline or process of innovation is at best distracting and at worst harmful to the organization. Creativity needs to be focused on the corporate goals and must serve as a funnel into the innovation process."
"Leaders must spend time looking for entirely new ways to meet customer needs."
"....above all, they must encourage and empower their people to take creative and entreprenueurial approach to exploit new opportunities."
"The best way to create value is to innovate your way ahead of the competition in order to create temporary monopolies where yours is the only who in town. You can do this by harnessing the creative power of your greatest asset, your people."
The Key elements of creating a truly innovative and entrepreneurial organization can be summarized in the following eight steps:
1. Paint an inspiring vision. 2. Build an open, receptive, questioning culture. 3. Empower people at all levels. 4. Set goals, deadlines and measurements for innovation. 5. Use creativity techniques to generate large number of ideas. 6. Review, combine, filter and select ideas. 7. prototype the promising proposals. 8. Analyse results and roll out the successful projects.
A Slave´s Commitment // Various Artists // Traum //
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This album is the first one we have released after just one 12" on Traum by the artist Applescal. This artist from the Netherlands was voted producer of the year in the Netherlands (Grote Prijs Dec 08), but more than that we were attracted by the approach of releasing a full long player by a very young talented person who has more to say than a dozen 12"s could actually carry. So we eventually said f..ck and took on all tracks and gave it a go. Pascal himself has chosen a track listing we could not disagree with... he combines here electronica with dance tracks with grunge... and has created tracks that sound as it they were recorded by live bands... We detect a lot of explosive juvenileness in this album, a quality which always has been so essential for albums so special. Their heroes are not Richie Hawtin or Ricardo Villalobos but Apparat and Extrawelt. Here grunge meets melody and we might call it the second wave of indie electronics. The CD starts off with the beautiful track "The history of love", that feels as if the world was twisted in slow motion. "Nottingham hobbits" transports and extends a similar emotions whereas "Ugly but nasty" introduces nasty acid baselines and reminds us of his 12" track "Monster" released on Traum. "In the mirror" has a bit more of a band approach, sounds like and The Cure or My Bloody Valentine or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry— it carries this "ghostly" atmosphere and works with chords and feedbacks . "Music for her ears" is the ambient piece of music on the CD... a bit of a sad and a melancholic track, that connects somehow to modern electronica with piano. "I cant stand" also works with ambience but dives into a sort of shuffle beat to rock away. "The forms of abstract life" is a masterpiece of electronica, it seems to visualise the beauty of flowers and nature in an intimate way. "The red dress" is a noise interlude, psychedelic, alienated and strange. "Funk and fc" is a grinding acid track that starts quite and works with a classic build up getting frantic and noisy. "Sjeesh" a remix of a track by the Dutch band Local Daddies. Inspired by the vocals Applescal used the vocals and bass of the original but changes everything else around it, made it a totally new track and gave it a twist which puts the track more in the region of Coldplay and Portishead. Applescal closes the CD with "Reeeer". A melodic and comic like track that makes us think of a large fish swallowing everything which crosses it?s way. Colourful and happy-sad, well... the holy Aphex Twin comes alive in this one.
以下imdbから抜粋： "Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia. Written by anonymous
LA Connect team with Meg, one of the LAC tutors, conducted a recording for the Phonics feature provided in the service. Some issues remain regarding the sound quality, which should be resolved soon. The features is slated to go live in the next 10 days.
Alice Hricak, NCIDQ, Project Manager; Ramesh Laridjani, Project Architect; Masahiko Tanaka, LEED AP, Designer; Vano Haritunians, AIA, Technical Director; Naomi Asai, Project Designer; and Richard Riviere, AIA, Principal of DMJM in Los Angeles, CA captured the Doc Award for their design of the Annenberg Foundation headquarters located in Century City, CA. When visitors enter the foundation’s 10th floor space, they are greeted with a rich palette of dark chocolate walnut wood floors and walls, glass accents, and rich inlaid Milktea Karastan carpets. The winning project by DMJM used Fabrique by Karastan Contract, made with Solutia Ultron nylon 6,6 carpet fiber.
＜以下Wikiから抜粋＞ Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communications.[1] Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, the magazine’s coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive media. The magazine continues to be edited and published under the guidance of Coyne’s wife Jean and their son Patrick Coyne. Currently, Communication Arts (CA) publishes six issues a year and hosts five creative competitions in graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive media and two Web sites, commarts.com and creativehotlist.com.
You’ve got to find what you love. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, Keep looking. Don’t settle.
Sometimes life is gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
“if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”
Remembering I’ll be dead soon, is the most important tool to make the big choices in life. Almost everything - pride, external expectation, fear of embarrassment or failure - just falls away in the face of death, Leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked, you have no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it by living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma….have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
LA Connectは2008年6月、米国カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス登記の株式会社。 Educatainment (Education + Entertainment) というコンセプトの元、新しい全人的な英会話教育と夢とインスピレーションを提供する事業をこのEntertainment Capital of the worldと呼ばれるハリウッドから世界へ発信し続けるべく設立されました。設立、プランニングから早一年。ベータローンチまであとわずか。
WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
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