Posts Tagged ‘ business ’

Everything is sales. When you’re telling your boss what you think should be done, you’re selling. When you’re explaining to your spouse what big-ticket item you want to buy, you’re selling. And when you’re talking to a client and negotiating new features, you’re selling. So, don’t you want to be good at it? I...
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There’s been a very interesting little “discussion” going around what we used to call the blogosphere. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington spent the previous week at LeWeb, in Paris, where in response to some questions, he said that Europeans love life too much to generate the biggest technology success stories. They have too many 2-hour lunches...
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Such gall Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier Recently posted on Flickr … Wondering why this bottle of kid’s vitamins is less than half full, straight from the store. Annoying, wasteful, unethical.
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As someone who’s recently been promoted, I need to be extremely self-aware about what I’m doing, what I’m saying, why, how, and how others are perceiving it. As Bob Sutton quotes Dacher Keltner’s The Power Paradox, positional power is a very dangerous thing: He argues that — contrary to the claims of many experts,...
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Just saw this great quote at Bob Sutton’s blog: Learn how to fight as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong: It helps you develop strong opinions that are weakly held. That is a great, great strategy. I also like another quote of his: Indifference is as important as passion....
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There’s a reason why SMS is a hundred billion dollar industry … and it’s simply that phones companies are unbelievably greedy. Note: the three examples cited are, respectively: from your internet service provider via high-speed modem, over standard text messaging systems, and snail mail via the United States Postal Service. All are assuming that...
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Just saw this in a comment posted by “T-Boy” at Scott Adam’s Dilbert blog “Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge...
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Pickthebrain has a post on selling yourself. I can personally attest that, after getting the qualifications and knowledge you need to succeed in your chosen field, being able to “sell yourself” is the most critical part of professional success. The highlights: Be Sold on Yourself Have a Saleable Package Be Positive and Enthusiastic Be...
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If only public companies understood this: In fact, sometimes, as the Grammy-award winning Orpheus Chamber orchestra shows, the best leadership is less leadership. No seed can grow if it is dug up and examined every week, and for people to innovate and get things done, sometimes they need some time and space and resources....
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Note: this is a paid review – ReviewMe is paying me $50 for posting this. However, all thoughts are my own, and I’m saying only what I decide to say. The payment part is so that I say *something* about Iceberg on Demand. Iceberg on Demand is one of a new class of development...
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Whoa. I wonder what this would do to government corruption around the world: The former head of China’s State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, has been executed for corruption, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. He was convicted of taking 6.5m yuan ($850,000; £425,400) in bribes and of dereliction of duty at a...
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Just wanted to call attention to the fact that my buddies at Agile Media have started up a blog: Personally Speaking. Agile is a really interesting confluence of traditional printing and modern media, nicely combined in a unified marketing package that is personal, personal, personal. I’m looking for more great things from you, Peter...
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