If you’re an exec who only does (or only wants to do) strategy, they you’re a lame dinosaur!
Rising professionals face a big conflict: putting one foot in the clouds while keeping the other in the trenches.
When you excel as a practitioner, your success lands you in managerial and administrative roles.… Read the rest
My weekends often include stops to two adjacent retailers: Costco and Home Depot. Life in the suburbs. 🙂
While these two retailers are located near one another, the experiences are drastically different. You could argue they are incomparable because they specialize in different things: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club with a wide variety of goods from groceries to caskets, while the other sells home improvement and construction products.… Read the rest
People are nebulous for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s rooted in laziness, concealment, or innocent ignorance. But to be successful in anything, you really need to be specific.
I was recently on the receiving end of a nebulous person and it irritated me so much I thought I’d unpack it here.… Read the rest
I love working at the intersection of technology, marketing and media.
This arena makes business interesting, fun, challenging and disruptive — all at once.
This intersection is more like a steadily rising sea that is changing how we produce, consume, buy, and interact and identify with ourselves.… Read the rest
Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew. The flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris involved an Airbus 330, one of the most advanced airplanes.
The plane’s speed sensors iced over, igniting a chain reaction of signal overload and pilot confusion.… Read the rest
