Shifting Careers Blog: Redefining Success
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This week's links focus on shaking up the definition of success.
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Management changes might make this a good value play.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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Would a 4,000% gain really change your life?
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Learning from past mistakes and looking to future opportunities.
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New management with all the right credentials meets top-hat business results. Good things will happen.
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A six-step plan to identifying great growth stocks -- and riding their success.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
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There are no guarantees in business -- especially when it comes to getting to the top of the ladder. Wired's How To Wiki gives you career-advancement suggestions that don't involve subterfuge and blackmail. But we can't cover everything ... without your help, so please give us your suggestions, too. It's a wiki, you know.
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Legg Mason's Mary Chris Gay explains how a seasoned team can boost success.
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The search giants have tried localizing, but with fair success. Here&#39;s a model that could work better. A new book shows how a change of ownership brought new life to the Boston Red Sox franchise.
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Marshall Goldsmith, an executive coach, argues that your past success could be holding you back.
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Brought in last year to turn Kraft around, chief executive Irene B. Rosenfeld wants to redefine the company and invigorate her staff by encouraging risk taking.
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A refresher course on getting better mileage
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The effort to create future customers is working, darn it!
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Should businesses replace post-mortems with âpre-mortems?â Adopt âcounterintuitive management practices?â And more...