9 Super Ideas to Help Achieve Your Goals in 2015

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” –Benjamin Franklin Big changes can be difficult to implement. Human brains are wired to create and distinguish patterns, and our tendency to follow routines reflects this. Work practices are even more regimented—and often ingrained—than our activities at home. But, by […]

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LinkedIn’s Killer App: Contact Management

Social media properties want to increase the time you spend with them.  They call it ‘engagement’ and it is a key metric that social media sites like to quote when soliciting more VC funds or in the case of Facebook, to make their analysts happy LinkedIn has been called ‘Facebook for Business’ and for good […]

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4 Costly Mistakes that Can Ruin Your Job

If you make listening and observing your occupation, you will gain much more than you will by talking. — Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scouts “A beginning is a very delicate time.”  Starting a new job can be a trying experience.  Especially if you were out of work for a while, moved into […]

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Leaping Into the Future

Imagine that you were put in charge of a company with 55,000 employees and $750 mil in net revenues. The company has a long history of being successful, but you know that the industry is changing rapidly and the competition is growing faster than you. How do you implement revolutionary changes in your business model […]

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Save the Planet: Start a Work Diary

Time is the wisest counselor of all.” –Pericles, Greek statesman (c. 495 – 429 BC) Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (c. 1952 – 2001) Disclaimer: This post has nothing to with saving the planet.  I just needed a catchy title.  But there are some great […]

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