Archive for November, 2008
Holiday plans
Just a short note to wish you and yours a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday. I will be enoying a couple days off and time with friends and family. I will not be publishing a Weekend Reader this Friday – I’m giving myself a complete break from work and personal obligations and look forward to [...]
Turning Buzzwords into Reality
As I reported on previously, last week I had the opportunity to moderate a panel entitled “Using Web 2.0 to Drive Top-Line Growth.” The panel did a great job, with several important themes coming out of the panel discussion and the networking afterwards. We distribute feedback forms at every meeting and while the feedback was [...]
Web 2.0 meets Web 1.0
I moderated a fantastic panel last night for the local SIM Chapter I’m a member of. As a Board member in charge of Programming, I’m always very nervous come meeting night. After four years of scheduling presenters, the one lesson I’ve learned is no amount of planning is sufficient to even guess how the program [...]
IBD’s 10 Secrets to Success
Attending a luncheon presentation at a private club downtown last week, I arrived a bit early. That happens often to me. What can I say – I was raised in the country; it took at least 30 minutes to get anywhere, usually more like an hour. So, especially for meetings very close to me, I’m [...]
Content comment for 11/14/08 Weekend Reader
The very first bullet in the Weekend Reader under Personal Excellence & Leadership mentioned a psychological examination of trust. If you were interested in the findings, but didn’t see any links, then you were probably reading either within an RSS reader or via E-mail. I used an embedded audio widget so you could play the [...]
Entrepreneurial Qualities Survey followup 1 of 3
As promised, I’ve given some thought to the results generated by the Entrepreneurial Qualities survey I recently ran. I’m going to break my thoughts into four separate posts: Thoughts on the qualities voted “necessary” Thoughts on the qualities voted “supporting” Comments recap Where to from here on the topic The first post is the easy [...]
The point of that last post
Most of my posts get written at night and then are scheduled to go live the following morning. So it went with my last post on using social networks to build relationships in response to the economic downturn. I had just finished the post and was getting ready to call it a night. I’m not [...]
Dots: Connected – Thanks Chris
I’ve always felt I’m a good “connect the dots” kind of person, whether those dots are people, concepts, initiatives, strategies, etc. In a sense a big part of my job now is helping entrepreneurs connect dots: their business concept to markets, their markets to market pain, market pain to opportunity and opportunity to investment. I’ve written [...]
“Recession-Proof” your Career
The good folks over at The Personal Branding Blog have been writing a series of tips on recession proofing your career through your personal brand. While they are titled from the point of view of personal branding, I’ve found most of the tips to have broad applicability and just make sense. The tips, currently at 10, [...]
How big do you want to be?
I talk to entrepreneurs virtually every day, in all stages of development and across a wide varieties of sectors. While they are all different, there are many common themes. There are the questions they ask, and there are the challenges they don’t ask about that we see them all face eventually. Today I thought I’d [...]
