In this weekly series on online community building, I’ve been talking about how to appear online as the distinct entity you are using unique content, whether you’re representing yourself as an individual or as an employee of a company, or as a business. Today I want to focus for a moment where all that content might…
Note No sooner than I finished this post than my friend Evan Sanchez Tweeted that Google purchased Nest.com for $3.2B. If that doesn’t make you want to fire up a startup I don’t know what will. Amazing and Nest.com is covered in our Distributed Home section below. In Startup Trends 2014 I covered five macro…
Every business needs a business plan. Right? That’s what you read on the “authoritative” business sites. The Small Business Administration says not having a business plan is a cause in over 80% of small business failure. So, perhaps you’ve found a template and created one. If you don’t have one, you feel guilty, don’t you? …
In business, many factors determine success and failure. Finding and fixing the root causes of any challenges is critical to success. Instead of treating the symptoms, look to treat the cause. Process maturity and people maturity are two primary root causes for a host of business problems and their interaction with each other is also…
I love millennials – I have 2 kids and 3 nieces and nephews who are millennials. In age sequence, from 27 down to 22, they are a CEO of a hugely successful 15-month old company, a program-manager of a Credit Union who wants to become an entrepreneur, a junior precious metals trader, an actuary and…
Even a reluctant glance at your Twitter or LinkedIn feed in 2013 couldn’t shield you from ascension of content marketing as a major topic of inquiry. Shit, you could even argue that the very act of browsing LinkedIn and Twitter for articles is itself part of the ever-spreading content marketing apparatus. And of course the…
Are you pulling together a pile of personal and professional content that you might share in your online networks? If you are, you might be realizing that mountain of stuff represents your effort and interest, and independent research. Most likely, some of this material represents the things you chose to do because they make you…
The past is linear. The future is arguably a little less linear, and a little more jumbled ball of stops, rest points, and sideways explorations. Online education is abuzz at the moment—sites like Udemy, Skillshare, Couresa, etc.—all competing to be your education supplement. This post isn’t so much about why you should be taking those…
Startup Trends in 2014 is a wide ocean of a topic (lol). Swimming around trying not be swept away I found a great macro trend report from Fjord. Fjord is owned by Accenture (so BIG) and they’ve taken a hip Forrester-like approach to the creation of an excellent and free annual trends report Before diving…
Worldwide, only 13% of employees are engaged at work. According to the most recent Gallup study about employee satisfaction released on 10/9/13, from 230,000 full-time and part-time workers in 142 countries, only 13% of workers feel engaged at their jobs. Only 13%? Something’s wrong here. Everyone deserves to do the things they are passionate about…
