Links of Interest – 12Oct2010

  • The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough SuccessApple, represents the anti-business school philosophy. It’s approach is to put its resources behind a few products and commit to making those products exceptionally well. “I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done” says Steve Jobs.
  • For me, Google’s Android has always been “geeky”. You might still love it, and this cool application could be one reason why.
  • More Google news: this time it’s about them investing (as much as $ 1.5b) in offshore wind farms. Yesterday it was about Google investing in self driving car technology, today it is wind farms, what next in line? A storm is already brewing in the academic circles about these investments.
  • World’s youngest CEO (at 14) of a multi-national company. On the board of the World Bank. Youngest ever member of the World Economic Forum. Who is this it?