When you’re put into a situation where you really have to listen, you need to break that routine. Good listeners are active. If you’re listening and no questions are popping up in your head, you’re probably not listening well enough.
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Dan Oshinsky
Dan Oshinsky is a reporter, entrepreneur, lover of start-ups and creator of awesome stuff, including Stry, a hyper-topical news service, and BooksAround, a social literacy experiment.
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In Defense of Bootstrapping or Why Asking For Permission Sucks
Some things I like asking for. I like asking for help. I like asking for favors. I hate asking for permission. This presents a sort of problem for me, as far as working in a bureaucratic environment is concerned.
What We Can Learn From the 7-Footer on the Airplane
Most companies work like that airplane. They build a structure. Employees work within the structure. And for the most part, companies work alright within this framework. It’s comfortable for most, and it’s rigid, and it works. Except that outliers don’t fit. You can’t be seven feet tall and stand up on an airplane. The structure won’t let you.
How Google Got Its Brand Back
The way he tells it, Google didn’t spend much money on branding at first. They didn’t even want to brand. When Edwards told the executive team that they need to use branding to set themselves apart from sites like Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves, Page said, “If we can’t win on quality [of search results], we shouldn’t win at all.”
No Rules. No Laws. Just You and Your Work.
Entrepreneur Dan Oshinsky draws revelations from a documentary about blood diamond trafficking to our daily professional roles. The question: Who’s in charge?
