Hold onto your ape hangers, American Chopper returns next year
This is not a drill: American Chopper returns to the Discovery Channel in winter 2018.
Discovery tells us the reboot gets father and son together to "reclaim
their preeminent bike brands and – hopefully, rebuild some sort of
relationship."
(AutoBlog.com)
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
You Don't Always Have To Keep Up With The Joneses
BMW Doesn't See A Need For A New Supercar Despite It Being Painfully Obvious
BMW is again considering developing a new high-performance sports car of some sort, something to slot above the current BMW i8 and the upcoming Z4 roadster and new 8 Series. The issue is that the execs just don’t know why they would need to.
Speaking to Autocar at the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW Vice President Dirk Hacker said the idea of developing a new supercar or high-performance sports car above the upcoming 8 Series is yet again fresh in the minds of the company. The only issue they’re having is coming up for a solid reason to do something inventive, fun, invigorating and exciting like that. There has to be logic!
(Jalopnik.com)
BMW is again considering developing a new high-performance sports car of some sort, something to slot above the current BMW i8 and the upcoming Z4 roadster and new 8 Series. The issue is that the execs just don’t know why they would need to.
Speaking to Autocar at the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW Vice President Dirk Hacker said the idea of developing a new supercar or high-performance sports car above the upcoming 8 Series is yet again fresh in the minds of the company. The only issue they’re having is coming up for a solid reason to do something inventive, fun, invigorating and exciting like that. There has to be logic!
(Jalopnik.com)
Business Is That Simple, If You Stick To The Blue Print
The simple formula Jeff Bezos used to turn Amazon into a $480 billion company
1. Distinguish between high and low impact
As Jeff Bezos explained to Amazon shareholders in his 2015 letter, there are two categories of decisions. Type 1 are the mission-critical, high-impact choices that influence the larger strategy, while Type 2 are the lower stakes choices that can easily be reversed if need be.
Given that most large companies have a very fuzzy distinction between the two, they fall into the trap of immediacy and their ability to direct resources to the truly important things suffers.
Most of your time should always be spent on Type 1 decisions. Type 2 decisions should either be delegated, or they should be batched together with other less critical choices for later.
All you need to know
Amazon is one of the most successful corporations of our day. They have many things going for them, but the key determinant of their success is arguably their decision-making process.
It’s easy to neglect the idea of having a framework in place to make choices. It’s something we have an intuitive process for, but it’s useful to remember that our intuition has known gaps.
Good decision-making not only removes those gaps, but it also filters signal from the noise.
(QZ.com)
1. Distinguish between high and low impact
As Jeff Bezos explained to Amazon shareholders in his 2015 letter, there are two categories of decisions. Type 1 are the mission-critical, high-impact choices that influence the larger strategy, while Type 2 are the lower stakes choices that can easily be reversed if need be.
Given that most large companies have a very fuzzy distinction between the two, they fall into the trap of immediacy and their ability to direct resources to the truly important things suffers.
Most of your time should always be spent on Type 1 decisions. Type 2 decisions should either be delegated, or they should be batched together with other less critical choices for later.
All you need to know
Amazon is one of the most successful corporations of our day. They have many things going for them, but the key determinant of their success is arguably their decision-making process.
It’s easy to neglect the idea of having a framework in place to make choices. It’s something we have an intuitive process for, but it’s useful to remember that our intuition has known gaps.
Good decision-making not only removes those gaps, but it also filters signal from the noise.
(QZ.com)
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