What are you going to reboot today?
Today is the day. My second business book, CTRL ALT Delete, is now available. This book is broken up into two sections. Section one is titled Reboot: Business and in it, I define the five movements that have changed…
Want to change the way you think about business forever?
On May 21st, 2013 my second business book, CTRL ALT Delete, will be published. The question this book asks is simple: do you want to employable in the next five years? Well, what are you going t…
Being picked by someone or choosing yourself and leading… which do you choose?
It seems like an obvious answer. Any self-respecting individual would say that they would prefer to choose themselves and be solely responsible for their own success and …
Social Media doesn’t work for the vast majority of small businesses.
That was the main message in the USA Today article titled, Study: Social media a bust for small businesses, published on April 17th, 2013. From the news item: "About 61% of smal…
You sometimes pick up a gem of an idea… and the mind begins to wander (and wonder).
At the Monetate Agility Summit today in Philadelphia (where I was invited to give the keynote presentation), I wound up connecting with some of the most fascinating …
Let’s start with a premise:
Whatever it is that you do, say, sell, produce and/or put out into the world does what says it will do and delivers on its promise. Nothing happens when you have a sub-par product or service. Once that premise is out of the…
It’s happening right now.
Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center as you are reading this and they’re having their minds blown by business leaders, scientists, innovators, agitators, inventors, designers…
Episode #343 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Lately, the podcasting landscape has developing into a steady stream of amazing, insightful and deep content – in audio and video format. I…
Episode #343 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Lately, the podcasting landscape has developing into a steady stream of amazing, insightful and deep content – in audio and video format. I…
Episode #340 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Seth Godin is an institution. Normally, in this short paragraph, I do my best to introduce the guest on each episode of the podcast. It wou…
Do you accept your lot in life? Are you afraid of starting something new? To learn how to accept who we are and how to make a change, I interview Seth Godin for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social [...]
Where do ideas come from?
If there were a magic formula or a way to both track and ensure that an idea makes it through your synapses into the real world, there would be gold in them there hills. What makes human life so fascinating (at least to me), …
I was thinking about this (a lot) the other day…
I had to review some edits for my new book, CTRL ALT DEL (out in May 2013), and I realized that I had written about a similar thought as I had in my first book, Six Pixels of Separation (2009). The cr…
I’m starting to feel like a dinosaur.
It will be ten years in 2013 that I first started blogging. Prior to blogging, I have a very clear memory of when hyperlinking started happening online. We take links and linking for granted today. Back then, if y…
It doesn’t take long to find inspiration. It takes forever to figure out how to do something meaningful with it.
I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to attend the famed TED conference since 2008. Within that timeframe, I have also helped out on a fe…
Are you courageous?
It seems like a simple question to answer. It isn’t. Daylight changes our answer. In daylight, we’ll tell people to "just do it" and to be "fearless." The athletic apparel and shoe business will toss a ton of mo…
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