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May 20, 2013
Tumblr and Yahoo
I am excited about the combination with Yahoo. When Marissa took over Yahoo, I expected that acquisitions would play a role in her transformation of the company. At the time I wrote that the ideal target would be “startups that have very talented people and also interesting products but could benefit from the scale of Yahoo.”[read more]
May 22, 2013
What is Quantum Computing?
The announcements that Google and Lockheed Martin have purchased quantum computers has led to a lot of recent coverage on the topic. Quantum computers are very, very fast. Instead of using the traditional approach of a string of 1's and 0's that are either turned on or off, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits.[read more]
May 21, 2013
It's Time to Engage with Employee Engagement
What are the top drivers of employee engagement? Find out what works to get your employees fully involved in helping your organization win. According to a survey, 54% said their company did not have an explicit employee engagement program. Thirty-eight percent said they did have such programs. The remaining 7% did not know.[read more]
It's Your Job To Improve Your Team
It’s not your job to defend your team. It’s your job to improve your team. Upon reflection, all of the great CEOs and executives that I’ve ever worked with believe this and behave this way.[read more]
Self-Employment Shifting to the Creative Class
Well known author and academic Richard Florida has written extensively about the rise of the creative class. According to his work, the creative class - a grouping of knowledge-based professions - has rapidly increased its share of total employment over the last 2 decades and now comprises about one third of all U.S. jobs.[read more]
Do Monetary Rewards Create Psychopaths?
Today’s business activities are increasingly more team-based and more reliant on people working together toward a goal – one person’s output is dependent on another’s and so on. No man/woman is an island any more. Therefore, it is more important than ever that our employees have the skills and temperament to work together effectively.[read more]
Five Ways to Innovate (By Seeing the World Just A Little Differently)
If innovation seems like some mystifying, unfathomable task, these “Playing With Your Brain” exercises can take much of the mystery out of the process.[read more]
How to Use Persuasion Techniques in Sales
The art of persuasion is actually a science and anybody can be successful in convincing others to do something as long as they use the right techniques.When someone does something or gives something to that person, then it is natural that the person feels obliged to return the favour. In business, it is the same.[read more]
Self-Employment Increases with Age
Self-employment increases with age, peaking with over a quarter of workforce participants 65 and older being self-employed. This works out to about 1.9 million 65+ self-employed workforce participants.[read more]
Miscommunication
The challenge of communication isn't to never miscommunicate, it's to cut down the time between the interaction and the realization that the communication didn't get through. Because the sooner we know we're not connecting, the sooner we can fix it.[read more]
Making Your Company Beautiful
We’ve all heard about putting lipstick on a pig – trying to make something pretty by just adding some surface enhancements. Too often employee programs fall into this category. Companies read about zappos (everybody drink!) or the new engagement wunderkind – google, and their “fact-based approach” to engagement – and say “Bring me one of those.”[read more]
The Top Challenges of Small Businesses
Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is survival. 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. And if that doesn’t get your attention, 80% of the 20% that survive the first five years don’t survive the second five![read more]
Just How Optimistic Should Small Business Owners Be?
Given the fact that small business employs over half of the private sector and contributes to half of the private GDP, a pessimistic small business community is not good for our economy. However, another survey claims that not everyone is pessimistic.[read more]
Your Manifesto for Success
Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.[read more]
Who Would You Choose to Be Your Customers?
Much has been said in marketing circles about target markets, demographics, psychographics and other ways to define who and what makes an ideal customer. The notion mostly implies that you determine the makeup of a market that your business seems suited to attract. The thing that’s always bothered me about this simple approach is that it sort of has a lowest common denominator element to it – who can we attract?[read more]
10 Reasons Why Your Company Needs Better Lead Nurturing
Let’s face it, sales is not an easy profession. If it was, there would be more people doing it and those that do it would be getting paid far less. However, there are ways that you can make sales easier. One of the best ways is through lead nurturing.[read more]
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