A friend wrote to a group I'm part of: Some folks I know who are at pre-IPO companies are really opposed to Warren Buffett's support of raising taxes on the ultra-rich, saying that Buffett is helping keep a glass ceiling in place between them and being super rich....
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Email Overload – Where the CEO of Xerox and I Disagree
As you probably know, I've launched my You Are Not Your Inbox, so I'm revisiting some of my old thoughts about Email Overload. Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article ("What's So Bad about Information Overload?") on information overload...
The Key Business Concepts Missing From The National Debt Debate
In business, if you decide to do a project you scope out the project. You estimate what it will cost, over what time frame it will produce results, and so on. Then you decide how to finance it. There are many, many possibilities: you might finance it by paying for it...
Is The Marketplace of Ideas Turning Into a Swamp?
We take it for granted that making things easier is always a good thing. I disagree. Sometimes it is, while sometimes it isn't. Today, I've been contemplating the case where maybe it's good to make things harder. Technology has made it so that anyone can produce music...
Do we create our institutions to stifle creativity?
Our organizations stifle innovation and creativity not out of maliciousness, but out of a side-effect of the way we design and run them.
Your stereotypes may blind you to opportunity
Stereotypes can blind us to the people in our everyday lives who can become great business partners, associates, customers, and maybe even family members.
Pop up ads are necessary for advertising business models
My friend tweeted me about how obnoxious web popups are. You know the kind: you’re reading a web page and your reading is interrupted by a pop-up urging you to join a mailing list or buy a product. It’s a total interruption, and almost everyone clicks past the popup....
An NLP hint on writing and emotion
Using emotion in writing depends on your words and the emotions those words bring up. Choose your words to create the emotion you want.
There’s such a thing as too much convenience.
Leaving your cell phone at home for the day might be the most liberating thing you’ve done in a long time.
Attitude isn’t everything!
I recently read an article in which the writer asserted that "attitude is everything." He was quoting none other than the famous sales guru, Zig Ziglar. I respectfully disagree. I believe attitude is simply part of the equation. You can succeed with a bad attitude and...