Happy Valentine’s Day! Fall for a Good One!
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KILLING MY CAREER
Happy Employees=Increased Productivity & Profits
Happy Employees=Increased Productivity & Profits According to a recent Gallop Poll*: 64% of Employees are Unhappy 24% are Actively Disengaged 87% are Emotionally Disconnected & Less Productive Organizations unwilling to properly analyzing the entire picture and determine why employees are unhappy will feel it where it hurts most: profits. To achieve sustainable employee...
Hackers Break into Networks of 3 big Medical Device Makers
Should be we looking at the device companies that weren't hacked as lead suspects? http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hackers-break-into-networks-of-3-big-medical-5217780.php...
Culture is King
I think leaders should think of their culture as the first and most important business model that they create. It is the platform from which the more traditionally thought of business models emerge. A great culture enhances your ability to create great business models (and...
PR Spin is Spun!
Forbes, 2/13/2014 The Death of 'Spin' (Will It Kill The Future Of Public Relations?) Transparency and ethics are making a comeback! The manipulation of SEO (The Yellow Brick Road of Risperdal?)*, creates a greater demand for actual content and less spin. Spin is spun and as consumers...
Meet AOL’s Digital Prophet-This Company has Issues
AOL has issues beyond repair at this point. They want to consider setting fire to the place and starting over. Meet AOL's Digital Phrophet-yeah apparently it's really a job title. I have to imagine that his business cards all contain a hit of acid, it's...
AOL CEO Refuses to Answer Questions @ AOL Women’s Conference
Let's file this under news that will shock no one: Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO, refused to answer questions at AOL's Conference for Women. Do we think the irony is lost on him? It does seem the fundamentals of management are lost on him, so we...
Who Doesn’t Like the Truth?
2.12.2014 It has taken me a long time (and hours of therapy) to realize that many of my relationships (both personally and professionally) involved sociopaths. These relationships started out on a foundation of lies and once those lies were exposed, I could no longer respect...
App. Designer sour on Apple
I recently, (last night)* wrote about the importance of having a good manager at work. Jordan Price, a now former app. designer for Apple: My immediate boss, who had a habit of making personal insults shrouded as jokes to anyone below him, started making direct and...
Kissing a Lot of Toads
For those of you in the industry, the word 'Brag Book,' is usually met with understandable groans. And for those of you outside the industry, if there was ever any question as to why sales people are arrogant, well, we're required to show potential hiring...