Umair Haque at Harvard Business on Obama’s lessons for innovators:

Change the game? That’s 20th century thinking at its finest – and narrowest. The 21st century is about changing the world. What does “yes we can” really mean? Obama’s goal wasn’t simply to win an election, garner votes, or run a great campaign. It was larger and more urgent: to change the world.

Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st century organizations: yesterday, we built huge corporations to do tiny, incremental things – tomorrow, we must build small organizations that can do tremendously massive things.

And to do that, you must strive to change the world radically for the better – and always believe that yes, you can. You must maximize, stretch, and utterly explode your sense of purpose.

I’d like to think I’ve always believed this. Every once in a while I need a small reminder to continue with this idea in mind. What good is something if there’s no purpose behind your chase? Where will passion come from?

J: who are you voting for

Me: i’ve been following this election closely for a few months now. and i’ve noticed something. i’ve noticed that only one man has really been running. you would think that in this most important of times, there would be more than a few stellar candidates gunning for the top job. but, for some reason, there isn’t. he stands alone. he represents the future we’ve all been waiting ever so long for. sometimes at night, you think: “what has the world come to? where have we been for the past few years? what a tough job it’s going to be to fix all this. who would want such a job? which one of is really is strong enough to take on such a difficult position?” this man wants that job. of all the people that’ve shown up to represent us, to represent the world, this man is most qualified and the most deserving. it will be one of the hardest jobs of the next four years (or eight) and only one man has shown that he’s strong enough. today, at the polls, i’m going to vote for this man. ps who you voting

J: i’m voting for madonna