2011 May

Content Creation: The Key to Successful Marketing through Social Media

Content Creation: The Key to Successful Marketing through Social Media

The biggest problem I see with companies just starting out in social media is that they don’t seem to know what they should be using Read More

Play To Your Strengths

Play To Your Strengths

If you have time to read Tom Rath’s book StrengthsFinder 2.0 and take the Strengths Assessment, I highly recommend it. Read More

Why Should I Trust You As My Leader?

Why Should I Trust You As My Leader?

It happens all the time.  We “require” the employees of our organization to blindly trust in the changes we implement, although we haven’t fully explained Read More

Seven Ways to Generate Website Conversions

Seven Ways to Generate Website Conversions

The real measure of a Website’s effectiveness is the ability to convert Web users into sales.  This is not an easy task and there are no Read More

The Secrets of Organizational Agility #2:  It’s Complicated in Three Dimensions!

The Secrets of Organizational Agility #2: It’s Complicated in Three Dimensions!

Anyone who suggests that agility is simple, about keeping things loose and unstructured, and focusing on cash as king, is wrong!  They are likely to Read More

Health Care Reform may increase the Number of Ineligible Dependents: and why CEOs should care

Health Care Reform may increase the Number of Ineligible Dependents: and why CEOs should care

While Health Care Reform is currently a much-discussed item in the media, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that the majority of CFOs are Read More

Lance…Say it isn’t so!

Lance…Say it isn’t so!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect

Mark Twain

Revelations this week about alleged doping Read More

Gary Becker and Michael Milken on The Marketplace of Ideas (Summary)

Gary Becker and Michael Milken on The Marketplace of Ideas (Summary)

Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker is recognized as one of the most influential economists in the world. He has tackled issues such as racial discrimination, Read More

Milken Institute Global Conference: Conversations On Leadership (Summary)

Milken Institute Global Conference: Conversations On Leadership (Summary)

Conversations on Leadership (click for video and more details)

A seemingly random panel of leaders of widely varied organizations—from an hotelier to Read More

Milken Institute Global Conference: Power and Economics of Social Media (Summary)

Milken Institute Global Conference: Power and Economics of Social Media (Summary)

The Power and Economics of Social Media (click to view list of participating speakers and video)

 

At the Milken Global Conference 2011, a Read More

Whaaaaaa …? 5 Reasons Why You DON’T Want to Grow Your Small Business?

Whaaaaaa …? 5 Reasons Why You DON’T Want to Grow Your Small Business?

Know thyself.
More than just Socrates’ goofy little catch-phrase , it’s key advice for an entrepreneur. (Also not bad are: Know Read More

It’s In The Bag!

It’s In The Bag!

After being victim of a layoff back in 1990, I spent six-months looking for a job.  Even back then, I felt I had strong credentials, yet Read More

To Improve Your Corporate Strategic Planning Efforts, Take Clues from NBA Coaches

To Improve Your Corporate Strategic Planning Efforts, Take Clues from NBA Coaches

It’s playoff season in the NBA so there’s no better time for an analogy between NBA coaching and corporate strategic planning.  Reflecting on the season Read More

How to Recruit Talent if You’re Not a Recruiter

How to Recruit Talent if You’re Not a Recruiter

“Fake it until you make it” is the direct quote from a recruiter I just met. Humor aside, there is some truth to that phrase Read More

Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of ING Direct, Explains Essence of Innovation

Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of ING Direct, Explains Essence of Innovation

The CEO TV Show features the third episode of Robert Reiss’ interview with Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of ING Direct on issues of innovation Read More

The Right Rewards: Business Beyond Bonuses

The Right Rewards: Business Beyond Bonuses

What is the ultimate purpose of Innovation in a business? The end goal is Return On Investment (ROI) for all Stakeholders. After all, the objective Read More

The Secrets of Organizational Agility #1: it’s an “AND” Proposition

The Secrets of Organizational Agility #1: it’s an “AND” Proposition

For the majority of managers, executives and CEOs , organizational agility is an ordeal.  They are increasingly getting overwhelmed, falling behind and wondering why.  On the other Read More

Data 2.0

Data 2.0

Revelations about Apple and Google tracking the movements of mobile devices has caused quite a stir. It seems their mining of data and ability to Read More

Filling A Role or Making A Difference?

Filling A Role or Making A Difference?

I ended my last post by saying, “In today’s new economic reality, or new normal, you’re  Read More

Does This Strategy Make Me Look Fat?

Does This Strategy Make Me Look Fat?

Innovate or Cost-Cut? The Business Strategy Dichotomy

“Innovate or die.” A widely-accepted rule of business states that if a company fails to continuously innovate Read More

Re-Branding Your Company: How Steven Tyler Taught Us to Be Bold

Re-Branding Your Company: How Steven Tyler Taught Us to Be Bold

There are very few people who actively like change.

Especially when it comes to our business (or our meal ticket) – change can be as Read More

How to Measure Innovation

How to Measure Innovation

No matter if it’s a test score, sports game result or a sales figure, what we measure is what goes down in history. After all, Read More

What Separates the Minority from the Majority?

What Separates the Minority from the Majority?

Our agility as organizations, teams and executives is being tested like never before these days and we are prone to falling for mythical solutions (Read More

Demystifying Social Media as a Marketing Tool

Demystifying Social Media as a Marketing Tool

In a new Vistage podcast, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur Chris Brogan talks about demystifying social media as a valuable marketing tool—and the biggest mistake small

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Companies Say Goodbye to QR Codes with Near Field Communication (NFC)

Companies Say Goodbye to QR Codes with Near Field Communication (NFC)

In recent reports from the Wall Street Journal, Google has boldly decided to remove QR Codes from Google Places and instead incorporate NFC-enabled chips into Read More