My baby sister is entering the workforce – my one piece of professional advice was to never be afraid of asking for help. More than anything else, breaking this rule has gotten me in trouble and others in trouble with me. Trying to play hero or guessing at an answer can yield good results but…
Just received my @geteero (3 units for home) and set them up in ~10 total minutes.
Very excited. Ordered these last year during the pre-order and I’m hopeful that they improve the home internet situation. Will provide feedback in a couple weeks but the setup process alone seems pretty solid.
Reviewing the Nexus 6P by Huawei. Upgraded from the Moto X Gen 2.
As you’ve all probably figured out by this point I enjoy my gadgets. Phones are particularly important to me because it is the one device that I’m pretty much guaranteed to be carrying or have near me any time day or night. For background, this is my 5th different Android device and they’ve all been…
Exchanging information during the Information Age is not straight forward.
HBR has a post up all about a process for eliminating the scourge of email. Every year several publications dream longingly for a world where email doesn’t exist. Personally I receive about 75 emails on a slow day and my peak last year was about 275 in a single day. I’ve seen where others are…
Fear makes discussions more complicated but that does not mean the discussions shouldn’t happen.
I encourage everyone who hasn’t to read the letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook. My hope is that this is the start of the conversation and not considered the end of it. We are at a pivotal time in the development of technology and now is not the moment for rash behavior or decisions on…
Are you accidentally limiting your potential and that of your employees?
I’m catching back up on a number of articles I tagged to come back through. Today’s is from Seth Godin on the mythical 10x marketer. Basically, there are people that deliver 10x the value than others would in the same position. If you are forcing people to play by a set of rules and telling them…
Marketing is hard – but that is no reason to make it complicated.
It’s really, really hard to tell the story of your value. It’s even harder to convince a stranger to you and your company to stop and listen to your message. If you waste the time on words you will fail almost every time. Words are too specific and too easily rejected as not being the…
What actions do you make on a regular basis that cause people to shake their heads?
A post from Boy Genius Reports a couple of weeks ago made me stop and think about how bad some of the solutions that we come up with are for actually addressing root cause issues. They are offering customers a discount on their phone bill as long as the customer agrees to see advertisements on…
Why I dismiss most “Big Data” surveys out of hand.
There is rampant misunderstanding of what Big Data really is. I’ve met too many people (and organizations) that believe Big Data is anything that doesn’t fit into an Excel spreadsheet. When I see a new report that says Big Data has been implemented at 65% of firms, I immediately wonder whether the companies that responded…
Recognition is fun but the real joy is getting the work done well.
My first manager once told me “if you make the cover of a magazine you’ve done something wrong.” Whether the cover was good or bad publicity it indicated that things are out there enough to draw attention. I’m not going to say that this should be a hard and fast rule but it can be…