The Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up. Be sure to check it out for some great posts.
AI and Robot Outsourcing. I've written about this before. I think it is the biggest future problem that no one is currently talking about.
Anita Campbell makes responds to my post on Jotzel about bad business books and notes that such lists are foolish. She makes some good points, most notably that while I may not get anything out of something like "One Minute Manager", it may have a huge positive impact on a newbie that has never read a business book. This is why I just ignore biz books I don't like, rather than blog about why I don't like them. (Actually I did question Good to Great)
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I think you’re almost right about AI Rob; if you combine the topics of that post; outsourcing and robotics, you get telerobotics - which functionaly exceeds the promise of AI at a fraction of the cost of AI and is possible with today’s technologies - imo, there-in lies the biggest future space that no-one’s talking about
I don’t agree with Anita’s argument at all. If newbies are warned away from the fluff, maybe they’ll read something worthwhile.
David G,
Interesting point. It makes me wonder if once we have A.I. some of them will start complaining when their work is outsourced to cheaper A.I.!
David F,
That’s true, but I took Anita’s argument to mean that what seems like fluff to me might be valuable to a newbie. There is value to fluff if it makes you think about business in ways that you weren’t before, but on the flip side, newbies may be likely to take the fluff as gospel.
What I didn’t like about the original list was it didn’t take on the best sellers that are just as vapid. C’mon sack up mister big shot!
Anita makes a good point about fundamentals. I think those that disdain good books about fundamentals should submit to an audit of their funamentals first. If you’re still not doing it you ought to be disqualified from critiquing.
But that said, there are some serious problems with the business of business thinking. And the proof is in the drastic drop off in customer counts for magazines, business newspapers, business TV, and coming soon for business blogs.