Posted on January 30, 2007
Face it; your emails are part of a snow storm blowing into someone’s Crack berry. Your carefully worded opus is part of a day’s load of information that you expect to poke through, get read and hopefully elicit a response. If you want to jump out of the e-noise and improve your readership with your …
Posted on January 29, 2007
Most of us think of ourselves as great networkers. We collect business cards, carry a black berry and know how to use LinkedIn. But if our network is truly of value to us, why don’t we cultivate it? Why don’t we spend time and energy focused on growing the nodes (people) in our network, instead …
Posted on January 28, 2007
I just love how random an IPOD can make life. You put it on shuffle and let it choose one of five thousand songs. One recent shuffle landed on a band I hadn’t thought about in ten years: Morphine. When they came out in the 90’s, they took over the college live music scene. Their …
Posted on January 26, 2007
The Pizza Hut story was added to the paperback version of my first book (Love Is The Killer App). I lived a part of that story while I was at Yahoo!. I’ve shared this story with many of my conference and convention attendees. People that have heard this are known to go out and find …
Posted on January 25, 2007
I’ve been hustling around the nation this week giving talks. First I flew to Indy, then NYC, then Vail and finally Denver. All since Monday. Lotsa plane time. Tons of tarmac time. I’ve been in 15 taxis and car services too. Before you think I’m complaining, hear me out. I had great time this week. …
Posted on January 24, 2007
Every day, many of us experience the interrupt stress of email coming in. Spam, memos, love notes, pitches, newsletters, they just keep coming in. You are working on a spreadsheet and the little envelope starts jumping or you hear a bell — and you stop what you are doing to check and see what just …
Posted on January 22, 2007
I’ve always noticed that Mondays are treated like mountains in our business life. They are tall, you can’t go around them and they are always there to stand in your way on the way to next Friday. We charge inand try to do 100% of our week’s obligations on Monday. One person recently told me …
Posted on January 21, 2007
Today I could spend about seven to eight hours watching two can’t miss playoff games. The sports media gang is smug in their belief that, unlike American Idol, they are TIVO-proof. You have to watch the games in real-time, right? Yeah, if you are having a social event. But what if just YOU were watching …
Posted on January 20, 2007
The two music categories I scour are indie rock and electronic/world. I’m thrilled to tell you about two brand new records that will curl your toes with musical delight:Saint German des Pres Cafe, Volume 8This is a collection of swank lounge funk nujazz downtempo and head tracks. Saint Germain is a brilliant French DJProducer that …
Posted on January 19, 2007
Readers are leaders. You’ll hear this often from me. The more you read about your world, your situation and your self; the more you grow and go. 800 CEO READ is a great source of business books. They have a great editorial style that selects only the most cutting edge provoking tomes of our times. …
