Ok. Ok. We all know the TV remote in hotel rooms could get classified a bio-hazard site because of all the…um, let’s just say unwashed hands which have pressed its buttons.
And the bedspreads (those hideously colored slick covers) still found in some hotels, well, let’s not even touch those.
But just when you thought it was safe to drink the water or your diet coke in your room, this comes to light. Please, for your own sake, watch this video!
The story now widely known, that Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard as an undergraduate to focus on starting his own business due to his curiosity about finding a better way to program computers.
His viewpoint, recently placed at the BBC News site, makes for interesting reading, regardless of whatever you might think about the Microsoft Corporation.
“So if you look at how progress is made and where competitive advantage is created, there’s no doubt that the ability to use software tools effectively is critical to succeeding in today’s global knowledge economy.” - Bill Gates
This quote I find very appropriate in our Web 2.0 environment, an area which Microsoft struggles to penetrate, the collaborative and interactive space. Perhaps the throw-weight of his curiosity got dissipated and diluted within the giant MS corporation.
There are business organizations and which work to keep business units small enough to avoid such a dissipation of the “curiosity-energy”, the entrepreneurial spirit which, if you trace the organizational genealogy of a company you will arrive at the seed entrepreneur, the seed of curiosity and courage to take the risk to try new approaches.
The original modern thinker on change and its effects:
“Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” - Alvin Toffler
When out in the LA area last week I picked up a new pair of shoes at the grocery store, and they’re great! I’ve been looking for them everywhere I travel but unfortunately my travels haven’t taken me near a Whole Foods Market.
Until now. What a place!
The shoes are “Simple - Green Toe” brand and, without doubt, the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn. The best part is they’re constructed from natural and sustainable materials.
And the nice part was being able to sample the raspberry:cabernet gelato before leaving the store.
What a great combination idea to fit sustainable footwear into the natural and organic foods brand of Whole Food Market.
