Modern Voices

Business Philosophy by Newmark

“I’ve seen companies with too much revenue.  Having too much money, too many resources, means you don’t have to work smart, so you work dumb. And then you lose your market position to smaller, hungrier competitors. Also, when you have too much cash and power, you tend to attract employees who are very good at organisational politics but who are really bad at everything else.”

-- Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist

Blog is Virtual Substitute for Bill Marriott

"It is the virtual substitute for Bill Marriott visiting every hotel"

--Kathleen Matthews, Global Communications, Marriott International

Employees around the world make up about one-fifth of the blog's readership and they comment frequently.
Bill Marriott doesn't use computers. Instead, he dictates entries into a recorder and a staff member transcribes and posts them. The audio is also on the site, which averages about 6,000 visitors per week and has had more than 600,000 total visitors since its inception in January 2007.

via Washington Post

Ordering Lunch Could be Top Secret

“A lot of things are not things that you would put on a traditional Web site. If someone directed a desk officer to create an article, it would not be about how to order lunch. That might seem trivial — but getting food into the main State Department building is not an easy task.”

-- Eric M. Johnson, U.S. State Department, Office of eDiplomacy
regarding Diplopedia, the department's internal wiki

Profit is Consistent with Social Entreprenuership

“Social entrepreneurs identify opportunities for social profit where others see only problems. They are able to develop innovative business models that engage stakeholders and bring about social change.”

-- Pamela Hartigan, co-founder of the Schwab  Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and author of ‘The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets  that Change the World.’
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Less is Just Less. More is not Better

“We solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to everyone else."

-- 37Signals