There is absolutely nothing absolute in my belief system. I kid you not. If you want to try to convince me that self-help books help, that Dennis Leary isn’t funny, that spending hours a day on Facebook makes you more connected, or that regulations are good for business, go for[…] Read On
After college I realized that, all the times I should have studied but didn’t, never really mattered. I still somehow managed to pull off two degrees and land a sweet job in the tech industry. A few years later, after telling a fellow engineer about the weekend’s wild escapades, he[…] Read On
The most important question in business used to be “What price will make customers buy?” But pricing decisions are quickly becoming a dynamic function of big data analytics that takes place way up in the cloud. Today, the big question in business is “What headline will make people click?” When I[…] Read On
I keep seeing articles and blog posts about how to stay motivated and motivate others. There’s talk about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, carrots and sticks, inspiration, rewards, goals, unpredictability, habits … all sorts of mumbo jumbo. The latest nonsense is that business leaders need to find creative ways of making[…] Read On
I’m reading this dopy article about phone etiquette in meetings and the only thing I can think of is that I can’t believe a business school like USC does research on this nonsense … and that the WSJ writes about it. Don’t these people have better things to do? After[…] Read On
If you’re wondering what to make of the global panic over the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, aka Brexit, first understand that the referendum is not binding. It’s up to the British prime minister to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty (voluntary withdrawal from the EU), and since[…] Read On
Watching a news program the other day, I was struck by something a religious leader said about U.S. presidential candidates, and I’m paraphrasing here, “past success is the best indicator of future success.” In my experience, the opposite is more likely to be true. In Only the Paranoid Survive, former Intel chairman Andy[…] Read On