Audio bursts of a business artist

How do you have a group chat where it actually feels like a group talk and not individual people talking over each other?

We are getting back to the very basics of the Internet again. How to connect people and make it resilient without centralised parties in the middle.

It may also be worthwhile to consider whether we should lower our firewalls a notch. We are all learning to communicate and reach out to people in this new situation. Not all people are trying to scam us.

All business is H2H, human-to-human. All your decisions are value judgements consciously and even without acknowledging them.

Video is taking over face-to-face meetings. A small step for a business person but a huge leap for all business practices.

Virtual everything and virtual first is something very serious and urgent. You cannot appreciate it fully unless you’re immersed into the new and unfamiliar. It takes courage and humility. Errors will be made and they are for all to see.

Sometimes it’s healthy to do short sprints and consciously do leaps that don’t feel natural. This is one of those times. What feels like a brave thing to do now seems obvious and lame in retrospect. It’s just a matter of perspective.

The future of business travel may be more local and earthbound. It’s more comfortable to travel by car, train or boat in short hauls provided that you’re keeping within the green zones such as Baltics. Trust is a high currency now among people, nation-states, and companies.

There’s no reason to favour someone just because they are a few kilometres away from you. Or limit your reach just because it’s convenient or familiar.

Some of the gains and productivity progress achieved may have been temporary victories if they are not fought over. Habits take a long time to form and the lockdown period may not have been long enough for that.

It requires friendliness and encouragement towards small and fragile. It expects thick skin and moral backbone to resist the temptation of favouring incumbents and old solutions. It accepts the fact that something new is strange, different and unfamiliar

The whole process of going through the different stages of the coronavirus crisis has shown weaknesses, stress points, structural, managerial, political and systemic challenges or mere blunt misconducts and ignorance in our society. It has shown that we are not prepared for something that is unexpected and requires immediate coordination and cooperation on a large scale.

Second-order effects are category-defining, paradigm-shifting and changing the course of many product categories, habits and values for good. They are big changes that may seem to approach slowly but yet their coming is a certainty, it’s just a matter of time: objects in your horizon may appear further than they are.

Post-coronavirus new normal is taking shape. It’s easy to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term consequences.

Instead of stacking numbers in the increments of one, we could also use something else to perceive our life. Some years back another friend told me he has only a few dogs left. I did not understand at first what he was saying.

there’s another way to succeed in the market. It’s based on your ability to create your customers’ attachment to you.

The whole purpose is to focus on these customers and serve them better than anyone else: to delight those who value and want what you’re doing more than anything else. The process to become oversubscribed concentrates on understanding who are these people, how to find them and what is it exactly what they want.

The book walks through the whole recruitment process and gives enough practical guidance to plan and execute hiring in detail. It takes the view of hiring manager who’s responsible of the new recruitment and provides tips how to involve and handle the HR department if the company has one.

Supertrends reminds us to look into those lingering things that barely move when you focus on them but are huge when compared to the historical already happened changes.

Much of business is about to-do items and practical steps to follow. The below books belong to this category of getting things done but no point re-inventing the wheel

Category creation is a business strategy where the company is focusing on marketing the category by focusing on the new problem in the industry more than the actual solutions for it.

Survival to Thrival is a practical and rather hands-on guide for founders, investors and executives that are in the middle of enterprise startup growth.

The path to great discoveries and success is not always paved with grit and specialisation. Generalist may be slower in life to bloom but more weird and wicked their world become the better they tend to perform compared to specialist.

Loops is about the iterative processes of human-centered business design where you turn ideas into reality with a systematic approach.

Serial entrepreneur Jurgen Appelo has managed to put together a practical guide that gives you the latest tools and practical knowledge for a high growth venture. The book is packed with agile and lean community techniques and best practices.