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[post] A cascade of thought leaders in need of a good idea

First we were employees, plain
and simple. Then we were knowledge workers. After that came "Brand
Me" and the notion that we were all CEOs of Me, Inc. Now our taste
for hyperbole in describing our place in the economic order has become
still more rarefied: what every modern worker aspires to be is a thought
leader.

The blame for this latest craze
rests with the editor of Strategy and Business , a management magazine.
In 1994, he needed a name for a new interview slot and came up with "Thought
Leader". Back then it seemed a forgivably pompous title for the pompous
thoughts of management gurus. Thirteen years on, it has come to be a much
less forgivable name for any old fool in possession of an ego and a blog.

The title offends for three
reasons, and pomposity is the least of them. It is inappropriately Orwellian:
in free societies, thoughts can be provoked or stimulated or gathered.
But not led. Worse still, no one seems quite sure what "thought leader"
means. You might think that to qualify as a thought leader you needed to
have a thought (preferably a new one) and be able to influence other people
with it. Yet mostly when the term is used there is no sign of any thinking
or leading going on at all.

This week the "Thought
Leader Index 2007" is published by a new "communications and
thought leadership consultancy" called Ledbury Group. It went around
asking chief executives, trade union leaders, editors (all thought leaders
themselves, one assumes) to name their favourite thought leaders. The result,
surely, gives an up-to-date snapshot of what the term actually means.

Top of the list is Google.
This presents the first challenge to my definition: Google has no thoughts
and no brain with which to have them as it is a company. It might be brilliantly
successful but is it a thought leader? It has only led my thoughts to the
extent that I no longer retain any knowledge in my head, I just look everything
up on its website instead. But I don’t think that counts.

The next favourite thought-leading
business is Apple. Again, I don’t get it. Apple leads my wallet and my
taste for gorgeous sleek gadgets, but not my thoughts. I am oddly forgiving
each time my iPod breaks and hurry to the Apple store to replace it with
a more glamorous model, but that’s as far as it goes.

You could say both Goldman
Sachs and McKinsey (respectively 8th and 9th place) suggest thoughts of
a kind. Goldman’s thought is "we are richer than you" and McKinsey’s
is "we are brainier than you". Both companies also transmit a
more subliminal thought – "we know something you don’t so stay close
to us". Yet this is more a veiled threat than an idea, and so doesn’t
really count.

Of the top 10 companies,
only the British retailer John Lewis (4th) has a proper, original thought
and that is "we are owned by our employees". But on closer inspection
that isn’t a thought. It’s a business model.

From this list of thought-leading
companies, the concept seems to boil down to this: "thought leader"
is simply a new and unhelpful way of saying successful.

The list of the top thought-leading
individuals is just as baffling. The number one slot goes to Al Gore. This
shows that to be considered a thought leader you don’t have to have a thought
of your own: it’s fine to take someone else’s. Gore’s contribution was
saying it very loudly, with some PowerPoint slides.

Bill Gates follows. I would
classify him as a former thought leader. His was the idea that there should
be a PC on every desk in every home, and very influential it was, too.
But as for any other specific thought he has had, I can’t think of one.

By contrast, David Cameron
has a very clear thought: "I want to be prime minister". But
the snag is that it’s too early to know if the rest of Britain wants it
too.

Gordon Brown fittingly makes
it onto the list at number 10. Though if I were him my main thought would
be: "Why the hell have I been ranked behind Sir Terry Leahy of Tesco,
whose only thought is to build more and more hideous supermarkets?"

I am left none the wiser
by the Thought Leader Index so for elucidation I’ve gone back to Google.
For just $109 you can buy a book called How to Be a Thought Leader, written
by nine leading thought leaders. In the blurb I couldn’t see anything about
thinking at all. It is all about "passion, relevance and reach".

A more helpful website offers
the following definition: "A thought leader is a person or company
that actively promotes and discusses ideas that are relevant to their peer
base." If this is all it is, being a thought leader is a total doddle.
But it also raises the more interesting question of why companies or people
feel there is something so great about it. Surely the job of business leaders
is to lead businesses, not to have original thoughts. The second may sometimes
be a route to the first, but equally it may not be.

An analogy with my (somewhat
inarticulate) sons is apt. By the above definition both are thought leaders
as they actively promote and discuss World of Warcraft, a lethal and addictive
computer game favoured by their peers. But what’s so good about that? Indeed,
I wish they’d stop leading thoughts and get on with their homework

EEEPC part 2

At last my EEEPC change back to M$ XP
Pro.

I spent more than 3 hours to surfing
for a IM which is supported to use the MSN account and the webcam. But
this mission is failed. Only I found that Skype 2.0 beta is supported the
webcam under linux enviroment.

So I don’t waste more time to fulfill
my expectation of this gadget .

After about 5 hours I change this gadget
to run under XP environment again.

The software I included in this garget
now.

Foxit PDF reader

M$ Office 2003 with basic help files

Full bundle of M$ Live software for
updating Blogs

Firefox for internet surfing. (I like
this for low-end browsing, with better config I would like to use Maxthon
2)

Ineternet Explorer for using internet
banking.

Anyway, I still love to use the linux.
I may change back to use it again when IM is supported webcam.

港女?!

無意中發現的…. 很有意思

http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/%E6%B8%AF%E5%A5%B3#yahoo.E5.8F.8B.E7.B7.A3.E4.BA.BA.E4.BE.8B.E5.AD.90

4 hrs / week

4 hrs / week 工作是一件我從未想過的事

老友給了這條 link, 原來世上有人成功可以做到

http://cnt.reuters.com/article/columnistNews/idCNTChina-251620071202

長工時 =/= 效率高

但是我有很多東西是好time-consuming….

幾時先可以更加effective

想一想我的工時至少 60 hrs /
week, 未計 travelling.

要好好考慮學習 big-rock planning,
不過我d big rock 好似太大, 大到個 schedule 裝唔到…

唉!

eeePC

最近我買了有點人氣的 eee PC,
公價4gb 有鏡頭版

個CONCEPT FOR PC 我覺得真係幾好,
EASY TO LEARN, EASY TO PLAY, EASY TO WORK. 跟機行 LINUX DEBEIN (唔知有無串錯字),
有longman字典 有 game 玩 有 openoffice, browser 用開始mature 既
firefox 都算做到 learn, play and work

作為我第三部 NOTEBOOK, 我只有4個要求,
WEB BROWSER, WORD PROCESSING, PDF READER AND VIDEO CONFERENCING WITH INSTANT
MESSAGING. 如果套用 MICROSOFT 的 WINDOW 下, 即是 INTERNET EXPLORER,
MICROSOFT WORD, ACROBAT READER 和 MSN MESSENGER 就足夠, 好可惜,
eeePC 內置有鏡頭, AROUND 三十萬像素左右, 不知道為什麼跟機來的
MESSENGER 同 SKYPE 都唔 SUPPORT CAMERA. 好似有點美中不足

今日再check 下是否 messenger 同
skype linux 板唔support webcam, 唔係都要行 windows xp 先得…

測腦

要用中文名

http://maker.usoko.net/nounai/

以下是注解：
惱 -> 煩惱
愛 -> 愛
休 -> 解釋為只想休息的人。能坐就不站、能躺就不坐。
H -> SEX
食 -> 吃。
金 -> 錢。
欲 -> 物欲、甚至要說是權力的欲也可以。因為整個腦都是欲的芭樂，就是一直以為自己是一個很行的卡小。事實上他只是個屁。準。
秘 -> 就密秘。藏私。隱私。
遊 -> 愛玩人。
噓 -> 謊言。
惡 -> 就”惡” ，不用多解釋的惡。
忘 -> 健忘、放空、無我之境界?
逃 -> 逃避。逃在某種程度來說也滿恐怖。
學 -> 和中文一樣是學習。真是熱血正面的一個字。
酒 -> 能有這個字真是太酷了。
友 -> 朋友。
妄 -> 妄想。很愛肖想一些有的沒的。
變 -> 我只聯想到變態的變，變質者。 -> 日文有這個
貓 -> 不知道是啥
幻 -> 幻想、白日夢

我測試後居然是

不是掛!!???