The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen explains how successful companies fail by sticking to their established business models, overlooking disruptive innovations. It offers a framework to help managers anticipate and respond to market changes.

The innovator's dilemma is a management book about innovation written by Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor with a fantastic haircut, in 1997. Its findings are widely considered to be extremely insightful and in contrast to common wisdom at the time of publishing. Due to the importance of innovation in the technology sector, it has since become the quintessential management book in those circles.

Here is an excerpt from the book to hopefully explain disruptive innovation:

"Most new technologies foster improved product performance. I call these sustaining technologies. Some sustaining technologies can be discontinuous or radical in character, while others are of an incremental nature.

By Gary Chapman

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts has sold over fifteen million copies in English and has been translated into over fifty languages around the world. It has helped literally millions of couples learn how to connect with each other and keep emotional love alive. They have made the transition from Stage One to Stage Two. They have learned how to express love effectively.

Here is a brief summary of the five love languages:

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9 qualities that immediately make people respect you when you first meet them

by Lachlan Brown | April 1, 2024, 5:07 pm

There’s a marked difference between being liked and being respected.

To be liked, you simply have to be pleasant and agreeable. But to be respected? That takes a little more.

Respect is earned through our actions, words, and even our demeanor. It’s about how we present ourselves and how we treat others.

Now, there are certain qualities that are universally admired and immediately command respect from others. These are traits that you can cultivate in yourself to create a positive and lasting first impression.

In this article, I will break down the 9 qualities that can instantly make people respect you when you first meet them.

Let’s dive in. 

1) Authenticity

In a world constantly bombarded with filters and edits, authenticity stands out like a beacon.

siege

Run the benchmark siege test to simulate 50 clients accessing 10 random cached pages.

siege -b -c 50 -r 10 -i -f urls_list.txt

• -b benchmark mode, no delay between intereation
• -c <num> concurrent number of concurrent users
• -r repititions - tells how many times each user should run
• -i internet mode, read URLs from urls.txt file in random order
• -d <seconds> delay between page request, can be 0.1
• -m "<string>" log message to log file for this run
• -f <file> path to file with URLs one per line unlike command line argument the URLs in the file or not quoted

  •  The file also supports UNIX-style commenting:

             # Comment looks like this

             https://www.joedog.org/

             https://www.joedog.org/haha/

             https://www.joedog.org/haha/ POST homer=simpson&marge=doestoo

  • <scheme>://<username>:<password>@<hostname>:<port>/<path> POST <query>

Timothy R Clark in his book “The Four Stages Of Psychological Safety” describes a conceptual model of four “stages” of psychological safety that teams can move through, progressing from stage 1 to stage 4.

These four stages are:

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Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

Unreasonable hospitality and its effects on your business

Unreasonable. This word has long screamed negativity, whether it’s your kid insisting on buying an expensive toy, a coworker who doesn’t compromise for the good of the project, or your mom refusing to listen to your sentiments. But what if you learn that being unreasonable could actually be a good thing?

In the service industry, hospitality is all about making people feel cared for, but when you add "unreasonable" to the mix, it takes things to a whole new level. Unreasonable hospitality is all about providing your customers with a unique, tailor-made service that makes them feel not just cared for but like real VIPs.

It’s not just about meeting expectations, it’s about exceeding them. And this act of going above and beyond creates an unforgettable encounter that’ll linger in people’s memories long after the experience is over.

based on: Black Mold In The Shower? Here’s How To Remove It!

Do you have moldy shower caulking? While replacing caulking with a mold resistant caulk is better, this is the best method to remove mold from shower caulking.

Prep Time 1 minute

Active Time 30 minutes

Additional Time 2 hours

Total Time 2 hours 31 minutes

Difficulty Medium

Estimated Cost $5.00

Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson

From the Magazine (July–August 2012) Buy Copies

Summary.   Disruptive innovation has been a pioneering concept in business since 1995. Johnson, a founding partner at Clay Christensen’s investment firm, explains how you can apply disruptive thinking

The S Curve

Once you get past the initial upswing, the life cycle of a successful company takes on the form of a sigmoid, or S curve. The S shape represents growth over time—starting out slowly, picking up speed during rapid growth, then tapering off as growth slows.