{"id":369,"date":"2004-11-19T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2004-11-19T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T10:50:00","slug":"enterprising-students-in-cambridge-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Enterprising Students in Cambridge UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to Charles Ainger talk on Changing Ideas into reality. Very interesting although one suspects it went a bit over the heads of the students.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting for me was Torberts four part of speech see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analytictech.com\/mb021\/action_parts_of_speech.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also the circular concept of any action  Purpose > Thinking > Action > Reflection > Purpose<\/p>\n<p>Importance of credible competitors when dealing with large companies<br \/>\n<br \/>Don&#8217;t be cleverer than your clients (I wonder how do consultants operate?)<\/p>\n<p>The concept of chauffagistes who sell warmth ie they keep your building warm as a service<br \/>\n<br \/>and about coolth see <a href=\"http:\/\/smartpei.typepad.com\/robert_patersons_weblog\/2004\/08\/reeds_law_and_t.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned the success of Indiagriline in helping poor farmers communicate directly to markets avoiding &#8216;corrupt&#8217; middlemen.<\/p>\n<p>Also about how JM got into the car exhaust catalyst market through going direct to political process rather than to car manufacturers<\/p>\n<p>He also touched on different models of enterprise other than conventional plc such as co-ops and helping the folks at the bottom of the pyramid see here.<\/p>\n<p>And when presenting the golden rules:-<br \/>\n<br \/>Use language audience understands.<br \/>\n<br \/>Don&#8217;t hype<br \/>\n<br \/>Rely on your enthusiasm<\/p>\n<p>AfterwardsI tried to convince Shamus Husheer of CUE to set up a blog on each of their speakers.<br \/>\n<br \/>S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to Charles Ainger talk on Changing Ideas into reality. Very interesting although one suspects it went a bit over the heads of the students. Interesting for me was Torberts four part of speech see here. Also the circular concept of any action Purpose > Thinking > Action > Reflection > Purpose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}