Category Archives: Leadership

Is Your Recruiting Team Damaging Your Brand?

Posted on Thursday, 31 March 2011 6:01 am by markpilip

The economic crunch continues with many good people still looking for work.  As an employer, it’s good news in a way.  There’s lots of great talent from which to choose, and you can generally get a qualified individual for less … Continue reading →

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Beam Me Up

Posted on Monday, 21 March 2011 6:04 pm by markpilip

I was going through an executive coaching session with Steve Arneson a couple of weeks ago and somehow we got on the concept of leadership philosophy.  Somehow that morphed to a discussion on Star Trek. I mentioned that I always … Continue reading →

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Fail Spectacularly

Posted on Monday, 21 March 2011 5:58 pm by markpilip

Andy Swan writes, as usual, another good blog post today.  He asserts that in order to win, you have to know how much you’re willing to lose.  And he takes to task the use of Chinese Math, which I learned … Continue reading →

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CapEx = Dead

Posted on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 2:27 pm by markpilip

I had this conversation last evening as we were wrapping up the Neustar booth for the day.  If I was starting a company today, why would I ever buy any capitalized equipment? We decided that with a credit card we … Continue reading →

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Keynote ProTip

Posted on Monday, 14 March 2011 3:29 pm by markpilip

When you are asked to do a keynote for an event like SxSW, consider what the audience will take away. If all you’ve got is a lot of “me” “my” and “I”, you need to rethink the speech or decline. … Continue reading →

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