Polymaths see the bigger picture
One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I’m looking forward to meeting up this week with my Enterprise Irregulars colleague Vinnie Mirchandani, whose new book is all about a [...]
The New Polymath Wow Candidate Contest
Abbie Lundberg, former editor-in-chief at CIO magazine in her review of my book, The New Polymath called it a “veritable firehose of innovation examples”. The book covers wide innovation ground across industries, countries and technologies. 150…
An Enterprise 2.0 Case Study: My Book
At the E2.0 Boston conference I saw plenty of handwringing about the lack of successful practical examples around social computing. I can point to one – a personal example – over the last year how my book, The New Polymath has drawn on communitie…
‘The New Polymath’ is a Firehose of Innovation Stories
For years Vinnie Mirchandani has chronicled all kinds of innovation on his his must-read blog New Florence. New Renaissance. Now he’s taken his examination of technology and how it affects business to a whole new level with his new book…
No deal for the Deal Architect
I felt like screaming like the man in the movie Godfather who wakes up to find the head of his horse, Khartoum in bed. I opened a package and all it had was a scalp – the top of a package I had sent a week ago with copies of my new book. On it wa…
A car for the blind
In my new book in a chapter on interfaces I describe how the auto industry is years ahead of the software industry in non-keyboard, mouse driven user interfaces. Some of the haptic, audio and other interfaces have been adapted to a car for the blin…
An invigorating day with Talent Management executives
Readers know I like small, specialized services firms like appirio and Corefino. I have also been a fan of Knowledge Infusion and its work around talent management for a while, and yesterday that respect jumped multiple fold. Oh, they gave me a cha…
Marc Benioff’s inspiring foreword to the book
As I listened to Marc’s presentation at the Cloudforce event in San Jose yesterday, I felt proud he wrote the foreword to my book. Not just any foreword, a really inspiring one – excerpts below and entire copy as attachment below My reasons for reaching out to him were simple. Marc is clearly a pioneer [...]
An author’s hour in heaven
When I started to write the book, a friend of mine wise cracked “All you need is a hairdo like Malcolm Gladwell’s”. You know I would kill for that hair But I am just as flattered by this comparison Tom Foydel makes between The New Polymath and Gladwell’s Outlier. Or the one Sadagopan makes with [...]
The Polymath and The Outlier
I like reading books that question our assumptions, that are ready to admit and work with the tensions of their own ideas, that are fun. I had the opportunity to read a few books like this recently, and they offered some interesting counterpoints.
The New Polymath by Vinnie Mirchandani has recently landed on our desk, and [...]
