Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it — a costly myth."
W. Edwards Deming
"Failure is a data point."
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
The most successful people. . . often aren't directly pursuing conventional notions of success. They're working hard and persisting through difficulties because of their internal desire to control their lives, learn about their world, and accomplish something that endures.
Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, p. 60.
As more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
Patterns when telling stories with data: - What is the dataset? Who generated the dataset and why? - What is the process that underpins the dataset? Given that process, what is missing from the dataset or has been poorly measured? Could other datasets have been generated, and if so, how different could they have been to the one that we have? - What
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The integration-automation framework differentiates between 4 use case types:
- Assistants
- Copilots
- Autopilots
- Agents
See full breakdown: https://blog.tobiaszwingmann.com/p/integration-automation-ai-framework
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
I often find myself reading with interest about a topic I never thought would interest me... What holds me is the enthusiasm of the writer for his field.
How was he drawn into it? What emotional baggage did he bring along? How did it
CEO’s job: “connect the company’s purpose to its strategy and operating model”
Bain & Co
https://www.bain.com/insights/revitalizing-joy-to-remain-relevant-video/