Muszkiewicz Reader

10 Commandments of the Intrapreneur

lmuszkie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:47:23 +0000

10 Commandments of the Intrapreneur:

1. Come to work each day willing to be fired.

2. Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream.

3. Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description. (BC: Or, as Eric Reis puts it: “In any situation it is your responsibility, using your best judgment, to do what you think is in the best interests of the company. That’s it. Everything else [in your job description] is only marketing.”)

4. Find people to help you.

5. Follow your intuition about the people you choose, and work only with the best.

6. Work underground as long as you can – publicity triggers the corporate immune mechanism.

7. Never bet on a race unless you are running in it.

8. Remember it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

9. Be true to your goals, but be realistic about the ways to achieve them.

10. Honor your sponsors.

Excerpted from Ben Casnocha’s The Intrapreneur’s 10 Commandments.

How Can We Create Conditions Enabling Every Community to Feed Itself?

lmuszkie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:46 +0000

Dan Farber’s TED talk How I fell in love with a fish.

A Daring River Crossing

lmuszkie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:30:10 +0000

La fotografía Audacia fue tomada desde el puente sobre el río Tárcoles, en Garabito, Puntarenas, y muestra la osadía de una garza que se desplaza lentamente sobre las aguas en medio de feroces cocodrilos. “Estuve alrededor de cinco minutos contemplando la hazaña de esta pequeña ave, que parecía no inmutarse ante la amenazante presencia de los cocodrilos. La garza logró cruzar el río sin ningún percance”, contó Pucci.

Captured by Juan José Pucci, who said the heron made it safely across the river. Excerpted from Andrea Solano’s Fotografía de garza asediada por cocodrilos del Tárcoles gana premio in the Nacion.

Snake Oil?

lmuszkie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:03:09 +0000

Fascinating topic and unreal use of visualization by David McCandless and Andy Perkins.

Who Will Lead the Regeneration?

lmuszkie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:16:12 +0000

Alas, though, instead of making nation-building in America his overarching narrative and then fitting health care, energy, educational reform, infrastructure, competitiveness and deficit reduction under that rubric, the president has pursued each separately. This made each initiative appear to be just some stand-alone liberal obsession to pay off a Democratic constituency — not an essential ingredient of a nation-building strategy — and, therefore, they have proved to be easily obstructed, picked off or delegitimized by opponents and lobbyists.

So “Obamism” feels at worst like a hodgepodge, at best like a to-do list — one that got way too dominated by health care instead of innovation and jobs — and not the least like a big, aspirational project that can bring out America’s still vast potential for greatness.

Excerpted from Thomas L. Friedman’s, The Fat Lady Has Sung.

Afghanistan Year Eight: Pep Talk for Marja

lmuszkie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:23:40 +0000

“Thousands of American, Afghan and British troops attacked the watery Taliban fortress of Marja early Saturday, moving on foot, in trucks and through the air to destroy the insurgency’s largest haven and begin a campaign to reassert the dominance of the Afghan government in a large swath of southern Afghanistan.”

Excerpted from C.J. Chivers and Dexter Filkins’ Attack on Taliban Stronghold Begins.

Super Bowl XLIV: Baylen Brees MVP

lmuszkie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:15:27 +0000

Drew Brees and his son Baylen photographed by Andy Lyons.

If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl

lmuszkie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:56:07 +0000

Via Slate, produced by Andrew Bouve. The David Lynch take is so good.

Gabrielle Bouliane

lmuszkie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:10:10 +0000

“This would be her last public performance.” Via YouTube.

A Man’s Office

lmuszkie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:06:49 +0000

Excerpted from Miles Fisher’s blog LESLIE – MILES, though photo isn’t credited.