One of the biggest dangers faced by any business is not financial in nature. It’s lurking out there in good times and bad. It’s insidious – so much so that often the business doesn’t realize it’s in trouble until there’s a major shock to their operating system: a financial crisis, the departure of significant staff members, or the defection of several major client. These are some of the dangers of The Echo Chamber. Continue reading
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Food Brothers
It’s Fun Food Friday and today’s screed comes out of my recent trip. Over the years, our group figured out that the cost/value equation for the roster of restaurants in Myrtle Beach was way out of whack and we’d be far better off cooking for ourselves a few nights. The condos where we stay have grills and we take full advantage of them. Continue reading
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I’m Back!
- Image by Curtis and Eric via Flickr
Going away for a few days has a number of benefits. You clear your head, you reconnect with friends, and you find out that sleep is NOT overrated! What’s different about going away now is that many of us are so caught up in our digital lives that we hardly ever take a step back and look at them since they move so fast.
I had that chance. the condo in which we were staying had no WiFi access so my communication was limited to email via Blackberry. Most web sites are not yet optimized for mobile access (get that on your “to-do” lists, folks) and the 3G network access was off and on. Using a dial-in connection just isn’t feasible since most sites routinely ignore their page weight – with so much broadband access out there, why not?
So I didn’t use my RSS reader and mostly stayed off Twitter and LinkedIn. Nope, I want to tune out a bit and here is what I think I figured out. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 