Leadership posts, articles, and infographics

The Weird Interview

February 10, 2012 by Seth Godin with 14 views

An audio interview with Darren Hardy and Seth Godin. [read more]

5 Things Great Leaders Believe

February 9, 2012 by Brett Pinegar with 56 views

What you believe for yourself will inspire others. [read more]

Lessons Nonprofits, Business Can Learn from Komen Foundation

February 7, 2012 by Geri Stengel with 29 views

Whether you run a business or a nonprofit, last week’s PR disaster of Susan G. Komen for the Cure should be a wake-up call. This is the third time Komen veered off-mission in a very public way. This time, the nonprofit seems to have learned some lessons about damage control and social media. You’d better learn them, too. [read more]

The Growth of the Recommendation Economy

February 7, 2012 by Kate Carruthers with 56 views

Seth Godin wrote about the the attention economy. But it seems to me that we are also seeing the evolution of an online social recommendation economy. [read more]

Marketing Cloud Computing to Non-Believer CIOs

February 3, 2012 by Ardath Albee with 18 views

Cloud computing is a pretty big deal. It's one of the top priorities for many CIOs. So, it should be a pretty easy process to build a B2B content strategy that helps CIOs make a purchasing decision. Or is it? I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and have a ton of Google Alerts to help me mine for information I use to learn more about the... [read more]

Claim Your Competitive Edge: Always Be First

January 27, 2012 by Small Biz Bee with 25 views

Lot of ways to make your small company competitive and gain a lead over the other guys battling it out for your clients. One of the best techniques is, when you have an innovation or strategy to offer consumers, be sure you arrive first. You’ll gain a competitive advantage that will be tough to overcome unless your product or service... [read more]

Motivate Your Employees Through Ownership

January 19, 2012 by Tushar Mathur with 37 views

The one indispensable component of a valuable business is its top employees. Think about it: your top employees are even more valuable than you are for the purpose of creating value for your ownership interest. [read more]

Is This My Blog or Your Blog?

January 17, 2012 by Pam Moore with 46 views

When you have a successful business blog, the pressure can become crippling. Pam Moore talks about her blog strategies in the last year. [read more]

The Art Of The Ask In Content Marketing

January 16, 2012 by Ardath Albee with 81 views

When working on content strategies with clients, the question about which content should be gated always comes up. Content — great content — takes a lot of time, effort and resources to produce. It just makes sense that B2B marketers want people to pay for it with their contact info. Or does it? Regardless of how much has been said about... [read more]

Focus on Outcomes, Not Organization

January 15, 2012 by Brad Feld with 51 views

I had a great breakfast meeting at the Cambridge Marriott with Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT yesterday morning. [read more]

5 Exercises in Perceptive Listening

January 12, 2012 by John Jantsch with 138 views

There are four kinds of listening that can be developed to help your business skills. [read more]

One Option is to Struggle to be Heard Whenever You're in the Room...

January 11, 2012 by Seth Godin with 27 views

Brief thoughts from Seth Godin. [read more]

Three Tiny Habits...

January 9, 2012 by Jim Ewel with 110 views

A tiny habit is once per day, for less than 30 seconds. How to change your business with three of them. [read more]

Entrepreneurs Should Take Surfing Lessons

January 8, 2012 by Steve Mordue with 134 views

Learn to fail gracefully by learning to fall gracefully. [read more]

Taxes and Tornadoes: Two of the Most Stressful Things in Life

January 7, 2012 by Kay Bell with 38 views

In Alabama alone, 62 tornadoes touched down, setting a record for the number of twisters to strike the state in a single day and representing one of its worst disasters. [read more]

Connectivity Does Not Mean Availability

January 4, 2012 by Jacob Morgan with 29 views

Not too long ago your workday started when you arrived at work and ended when you left work. Then, overtime, as new forms of communication were introduced and implemented in the workplace work started to play a more central role in our lives. Work was no longer about when you got to work and left work it became about when you... [read more]

The Year of the Change Agent

January 3, 2012 by David Armano with 32 views

We've always lived and worked in a state of flux but one can make the argument that recent developments in technology, society and business seem to have accelerated the pace of change we have to contend with. Our mobile devices would have been considered fairly high powered computers not that long ago. We live in a hyper-connected state... [read more]

The Best Decision Makers Are Reflective - Happy New Year! #leadership

December 28, 2011 by Lisa Haneberg with 35 views

Many people set goals for the new year. I do that, too. Even more important than goals, however, is reflection. How did 2011 go? Of what are you most proud? What would you do differently if you could have a "do-over?" If your last year ended up being your last year, would it have represented your best living? Reflection is critical for... [read more]

A Spot of Advice for the Holidays...

December 25, 2011 by Pamela Slim with 22 views

Before I close up shop for the year, I had a tiny bit of advice for any awkward moments around the holidays. I hope they help. Feel free to write them on flash cards and pull them out at opportune moments. You define your own success. Don’t worry about how others define theirs. Laughing with your relatives is so much for enjoyable... [read more]

5 Reasons Why It’s Time for CIOs in Mid-Sized Businesses to Move to the Cloud

December 18, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 81 views

Despite numerous market research forecasts predicting that small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) would be in the vanguard of adopting today’s rapidly expanding array of Cloud-based services, the truth is that most mid-sized businesses have been slow to join the migration to these ‘on-demand’ alternatives. In too many cases, it has been... [read more]