Archive for Entrepreneur View
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All Companies Are Tech
My wife's 70 year old aunt, who is a Catholic Nun and lives in Rome, visited us last week. After getting settled in the guest room the first thing she asked was if we had high-speed wireless. She pulled out her laptop and logged into the server of her religious order in Italy. From our kitchen ta...
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What Martial Arts Teaches Me About Productivity and Control
I have the honor and the privilege of being a student of the Shoshin Ryu School of martial arts. I’ve recently returned from the annual Nationals conference, this year in Boise, Idaho, where students and sensei from the dojo all over the country gather for 4 days of intense training. It’s so...
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Why “Time Management” is No Longer Relevant
Search engines, billions of websites, targeted advertisement and easy access to digital content provide us with myriad ways of taking care of our most complex informational and entertainment needs. What is now scarce, and therefore valuable, is the user’s attention, which explains the intense effo...
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Turning Productivity into Passion, Part 2
A while ago I wrote about one of the greatest benefits of increased productivity: the extra time it allows you to give back to a cause you believe in. I am fortunate to be on the board of an Austin non-profit called GENaustin (Girls Empowerment Network). GEN’s mission is to foster healthy self e...
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Rethinking Competitive and Complementary Positioning
Who knew that 3Par was such a hot commodity? Not anyone on Wall Street or the IT research group community. One week Dell is bidding $1.13 billion for a company valued on the NYSE for $605 mm, and the next week, HP is bidding $1.5 billion for the same company. Everyone is still surprised since...
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The Planner vs. The Do-er
Before you get to today’s post, I’d like to remind you to please cast a vote in Networlding’s BizBookPitchfest Contest, where I am a finalist. The winner receives a coaching package to help get her book published, and the book topic with the most votes wins on August 5, 2010. I would ...
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Maximize Your Conference (Part 7 of 10) – "Use Social Media"
Thom Singer is known as "The Conference Networking Catalyst". He regularly speaks at industry conventions and trade shows where he inspires the audience (and vendors) to maximize their participation at the event. One of the top reasons people attend business conferences is for the "N...
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I Won! Would You Read This Business Book?
Well, the votes are in and thanks to all the wonderful support from my friends, clients, and colleagues, my book proposal was selected as the winner in the Business Book Pitchfest, sponsored by Networlding and Crowdspring. I am truly humbled by the support and grateful to every person who voted fo...
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What’s going on in corporate America?
Over the last 120 days I’ve been speaking with business owners about what’s going on in corporate America. The questions we continue to discuss center around the economic climate, recovery or no recovery, inner workings of corporate America and overall gut feeling about the next 24 months. Chewi...
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Networking Doesn’t Work
Jason Alba has a provocative blog title called "Networking Doesn't Work (Part II)" on his JibberJobber Blog. It is a follow up from a post of the same title from two years ago. This time he is posting a new comment from the old post were a reader whined that "Networking" is the most overused word ...
