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Category Archives: Organization
Forget Big Data. Improve Marketing With a Cathode Follower!
What do tube amplifiers have to do with digital marketing? It turns out the analog world of tube circuits is more like the real world of marketing and advertising than the clean, digital, “Big Data” world we’d like to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Guitar, Marketing, Organization
Tagged amplification, analog, digital, guitar, marketing, marketing automation, music, noise, signal
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Price-Driven Corporate Brutality?
The quest for the bottom line leads to brutality, says Seth Godin in today’s blog post. The race to the bottom, driven by price, causes people within companies to treat others with disregard of the Golden Rule. Outsourcing, treating customers … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Leadership, Organization, Sales
Tagged contempt, leadership skills, Pricing, sales, Seth Godin
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Innovate Creatively or Die, New York Times
I love the New York Times. I learned how to read newspapers in school, with the Times as the teaching vehicle. What I recall learning: It contains “All the News That’s Fit to Print” The Times always gets the facts … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Branding, Marketing, Media, Organization, Strategy
Tagged advertising, Innovation Report, media, New York, New York Times, newspapers, strategy
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Don’t Be Blind To Domain Dependence
Why did the auto dealers in New Jersey work to get Tesla’s direct sales model banned in the state? Why do Uber and Lyft have to battle taxi and limousine commissions in order to do business? And why didn’t Hilton … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Diversity, Education, Leadership, Organization, Product Development
Tagged Antifragile, product development, Taleb, Volatility
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Leaders Eat Last
“The cost of leadership is self interest.” Says Simon Sinek in his remarkable talk “Why Leaders Eat Last” at a recent Behance conference. The talk is based on his upcoming book Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged Helping others, leadership, philosophy, Simon Sinek, Values
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A Bitcoin for Identity
I believe that Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures is a smart investor and astute observer of technology trends. His talk at LeWeb Paris is timely, because a lot of us are looking forward to 2014 and trying to figure … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy, Privacy, Security
Tagged bitcoin, data, Fred Wilson, freedom, Mikko Hypponen, NSA, privacy, security, surveillance, trends
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Get Them to React, Not Regurgitate
Google’s SVP of HR, Lazlo Block, has revealed that the infamous Google interview questions were a bunch of hooey after all. Turns out when decide to play “stump the interviewee” you’re just stroking your own ego. Further, what type of … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged emotion, eq, Google, interview, iq, leadership skills, people
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What’s Your Reward?
Citigroup posted fourth quarter 2012 results of $1.2 billion in net income, $0.38 per diluted share. This compared with net income of $956 million or $0.31 per diluted share in fourth quarter 2011. Congratulations to the hard-working Citi employees who … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged citi, ethics, layoffs, Simon Sinek
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Recruit The Exceptional
Our leadership skills aren’t as special as we think. We can’t make average talent outstanding. Spend less time managing the average and more time talking with and recruiting the exceptional. Talent and grit win.
Posted in Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged grit, leadership skills, recruiting, talent
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Design Your Community
Andrew Chen reminds us this morning to design our community along with our product. This design, as design thinking teaches, should be thoughtful and iterative. The design should not be accidental. Because accidental design is what gets us a customer … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Marketing, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged customers, design, process, thinking
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