Image via National Geographic. And here are the week’s most interesting links!
If you only read one thing.
- How to redesign your app without pissing everybody off | Anil Dash
Management.
- Management is not leadership | John Kotter, Harvard Business Review
Innovation.
- Be wrong as fast as you can | NYTimes.com
- What entrepreneurs can learn from artists | Fortune Management
- Will ad agencies ever make products successfully? | Mobile Inc
- Curation and incubation: the evolution of ‘saving’ the agency | Mobile Inc
Insights.
- The improbable is the new normal. “I am unsure of what this intimacy with the improbable does to us. What happens if we spend all day exposed to the extremes of life, to a steady stream of the most improbable events, and try to run ordinary lives in a background hum of superlatives? What happens when the extraordinary becomes ordinary?” | The Technium by Kevin Kelly
- You won’t stay the same, study finds. People tend to “underestimate how much they will change in the future.” | NYTimes.com
- Revisiting: ‘Askers’ vs. ‘Guessers.’ Which one are you? And why is it so horrible when the two types of people meet?! | The Atlantic Wire
- On false dichotomies and diversity: “if you manage to get a speaker line‐up with 0% female speakers, you have a bias. It does not necessarily mean that you’re a male chauvinist pig with a deep‐seated hatred for women who is determined to hoist the banner for sexism to exciting new heights with his next event. It may just mean that you have an unexamined, unconscious bias” | Aral Balkan
- A simple suggestion to help phase out all-male panels at conferences. “Men: You can help fix this. Refuse to participate unless there are women on stage with you.” | The Atlantic
- How feeling powerless directs the narratives of our mind | Farnham Street
- Do we need advertising? | RSA blogs
Creativity.
- 3 storytelling tips from “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan | Co.Create
- On selling out | Austin Kleon
On Nextness this week.
- Can traditional ad agencies stop making people want things and instead make things people want? Three good posts and a long comment have reignited the debate over “saving” ad agencies this week. Our summary.