Jul 10, 2012

Hallelujah, LinkedIn did its users a great service this past week when they stopped supporting (for whatever reason) the feature that allowed its users to connect their Twitter Stream to their LI Status. It had reached the point where the once somewhat useful section where status updates had gone had become nothing more than a Tweetdeck column where your...

Jul 5, 2012

It seems as if every couple of years the brethren of Harvard Business come up with a buzzword to preoccupy industry. Almost in “Wag The Dog” fashion, the words take hold and prevent us from thinking clearly about what it is we really do that would make a customer want to work with us. Instead, sentences littered with buzzwords plaster themselves across our...

Jun 20, 2012

If I had to assess the first place that most managers go wrong, I could come up with a few ideas. Perhaps it is the misunderstanding of power, or maybe the desire to micro manage every little activity. While both of these certainly rear their ugly head via our leaders and managers, I’d like to propose an alternative first mistake. From the time that we...

Jun 11, 2012

I’m not exactly sure why or when it happened, but recently I have become enamored with the concept of motivation. I want to better understand why people do what they do, and what makes them change their behavior? As an always aspiring to improve leader I thirst for knowledge in this subject area, and consistently look to my successes and more...

May 30, 2012

Believe it or not, at one point or another every business was a start up. Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and on and on. While few will become Fortune 500 companies, many organizations grow up and become fluid ecosystems that live and grow, both in revenue and in human resource. Gaining maturity, organizations arrive at a point where the growing...

May 22, 2012

Lately I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about what the workplace of the future may look like. For what seems like forever the workplace has been relatively unchanged. Cubicles, Offices, Meeting Rooms, Multipurpose Spaces; dependent on the size of the workplace it had more or less or each of these, but they were all there none the less. With...

May 17, 2012

For ages the pundits, educators, and practitioners alike have sought relentlessly to figure out what it is that leads some businesses to successful outcomes while others stagnate, sway, or even realize certain death. Often times from afar two businesses can look, feel, and act very similar. They may be in a similar industry, create similar products/services,...

May 9, 2012

This post was originally written for 12 Most and can be found here. We all want to sell more. Whether it is our job, or it is in our lives, we are always selling. Selling is a requisite to building meaningful business, customers, and friendships. Yet sometimes we get so into selling our products and services that we forget where it all began. This past weekend...