The economy will be going gangbusters Your knowledge will reach critical mass Your boss will give you the go ahead (and agree to take the heat if things don’t work out) Your family situation will be stable The competition will…
Monthly Archive
for: ‘December, 2010’
#YearInReview What did you ship in 2010?
This might be a useful exercise. Doesn’t matter whether it was a hit or not, it just matters that you shipped it. Shipping something that scares you (and a lot of what follows did) is the entire point. [Funny, it’s…
Sadly stuck with the status quo
JetBlue is ordinarily smart with their web site, which is why their broken system is particularly useful to take a look at. I’m guessing that at some point, management said, "it’s good enough," and moved on to more pressing issues….
You Have Verified Your Google Places Listing, Right?
Don’t let your unverified business be modified or closed down by a stranger. Follow Google’s lead and start taking Google Places seriously.
Folk wisdom and proofiness
"Is it feed a cold, starve a fever, or the other way around, I can never remember?" Does it matter if you get the rhyme wrong? A folk remedy that doesn’t work doesn’t work whether or not you say it…
Online Reputation Management 101
How to manage your reputation online, track it, evaluate and interpret online conversations, and engage and act.
Bigger or smaller?
Every decision we make, every encounter we have… we get a choice. Are we opening doors or closing them? It’s so tempting to shut people down, to limit the upside, to ostracize, select and demonize. It makes things a lot…
Measuring busy-ness…
is far easier than measuring business. Busy-ness might feel good (like checking your email on Christmas weekend) but business means producing things of actual value. Often, the two are completely unrelated. What if you spent a day totally unbusy, and…
Family day
If you got a Kindle today, here are some tips to get you started. A million or so people are starting with an empty one.
I hope you enjoy your family and doing whatever truly matters to you today.
A paradox of expectations
Better than expected might be the level of quality that’s necessary to succeed.
Of course, once that becomes the standard, the expectation is reset.
