Amazon services 12/31/2011
17 services.
Amazon services 12/29/2013
33 services.
Notes:
2011 – 8 trade areas (9 with U.S.?)
2013 – 12 trade areas (13 with U.S.?)
**The United States is not included in the list for either year.
Knowledge Creation
“As knowledge becomes the resource of post-capitalist society, the social position of school as “producer” and “distributive channel” of knowledge, and its monopoly, are both bound to be challenged. And some of the competitors are bound to succeed.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
*Business model innovation.
Kaizen: Small Changes, Big Difference
“… in Japanese Kaizen, every single step is a small one—a minor change here, a minor improvement there. But the aim is to produce by means of step-by-step improvements a radically different product, process, or service a few years later. The aim is to make a difference.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
How making a difference matters. Staying competitive, strong and capable.
Turnaround
“A turnaround requires abandoning whatever does not perform and doing more of whatever does perform.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
This would seem to be a process that could apply to the individual as well.
Revolutionary Wealth – Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
If the First Wave wealth system was chiefly based on growing things, and the Second Wave on making things, the Third Wave wealth system is increasingly based on serving, thinking, knowing and experiencing.
This is the most highlighted passage with 52 highlighters as of December 20, 2013.
Where were we and where are we going?
Notes:
Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
How to Fix Transposed Characters on a Mac
Transpose characters keyboard shortcut on a Mac.
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Where to Invest
November 22, 2013
2:09:46 PM
Found this in the highlights of a Kindle book I was reading.
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
Review your highlights from Kindle books at https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights
If you highlight too much of a text you will loose the ability to see the early highlights this way. I saved highlights to a personal Evernote file, one per book. That way if the highlights become inaccessable this way I have the early highlights already saved in a file I can review in it’s entirety any time I want.
2:12:58 PM
Five Years in the App Store – David Smith
Five Years in the App Store – David Smith:
“It’s better to try an idea and see if it works than worry too much about its potential and never ship.”
*Yep.
Publishing From Drafts To Blog
4 November 2013
12:10:42 PM
Thinking of using Drafts to write posts for my blog. There is not a direct way I know of to directly publish that way. There is a way to send to Byword and for that app to publish to my blog. This post will be testing that idea.
This post was created on an iPad mini.
12:13:25 PM
Rally cry for sinking companies: “All hands on deck” by David of 37signals
Rally cry for sinking companies: “All hands on deck” by David of 37signals:
“But hey, at least we know now the pitch of the whistle that says its time to abandon ship. It’s ‘all hands on deck’.”
*A world of hurt directed at companies that are decreasing flexibility and freedom for their employees.
People are the power that enables the firm to create value for customers. Why make it unpleasant to work for the firm? People that are creating value should be able to preserve their freedom. Workers that are not producing need to be coached, managed, or perhaps set free for other opportunites.
D.L. Damore 