What Is Wrong With IBM?
TweetIBM has a female CEO. IBM sponsors the Masters, an event held at Augusta National, a private club that does not allow women to be members. Which means Virginia Rometty can’t join the club that her...
View ArticleShould Your Klout Score be a Deal Breaker?
TweetWhen a friend of mine turned 40 her sister told her that she had better take care of herself because she was competing with 20-year-olds. My thought: Why would you want to date a man who wants to...
View ArticleThe Problem with the NFL
TweetIs your business incentivizing employee collaboration? The NFL does not have guaranteed contracts. This means that you can negotiate your multi-year deal, but if your get injured, sneeze the wrong...
View ArticleRoses, Rulers, and Cubicles
TweetA colleague of mine is about to move offices. Or, more precisely, her company is about to move her office across town. This has prompted mass angst (not including her) about office space and what...
View ArticleWe Are All in Sales
TweetDid you know that the average person spends 40 percent of his or her job on sales? That works out to 24 minutes per hour. In a fascinating conversation with Jonathan Fields, Daniel Pink said that...
View ArticleIs Location-based Recruiting Creepy?
TweetThe Wall Street Journal’s At Work blog has an interesting post on recruiters who use location-based apps to find prospects. The author points to a recruiter who drives around New York in a cab...
View ArticleWhat Trends Shape the Future of Work?
TweetFrom 24/7 access to digital ubiquity, the ways that we find information, process data, learn, and make decisions are rapidly changing — transforming us and our relationships with screens and with...
View ArticleThe Problem with Chocolate Conversations
TweetQuick Poll: What’s your favorite kind of chocolate? Ask three people about chocolate and you are likely to get at least three different answers. Hazelnut truffles, cherry bonbons, Hershey’s...
View Article7 Key Takeaways from Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report
Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report is out. Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins (yes, that Kleiner Perkins), annually drops a large deck of trends and statistics for us to ponder. This year’s...
View ArticleCompanies Need to Get Better at Subtraction
Buffer recently sunset its optimal scheduling tool. I loved the tool. It was a handy way to identify the best times to schedule posts on different social platforms. Want to schedule 5 Twitter posts a...
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