I’m sure you’ve all read about Facebook adding email to their social platform. If you didn’t know that you can read Gizmodo’s report here and there are lots of others out there. It’s being mentioned as a Gmail killer and as a threat to Yahoo mail (the world’s biggest provider). It incorporates email, SMS, Facebook messaging and chat. Given that Facebook has half a BILLION people using its platform, it’s not hard to think that way.
But I don’t. And here’s why. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, What's Going On
One of the big mistakes I have seen over and over during my business career has been executives negotiating against themselves. I’m not talking about simple role-playing to sort out how best to attack a problem. What I mean is a group of businesspeople sitting together to plan strategy or review a contract and talking themselves out of a deal point because they believe that the other side won’t go for it even though they’ve heard nothing from the other side. Dummies! Here’s what I think is a better approach. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, Helpful Hints
I was out in the yard the other day when I heard this tremendous commotion down in the lower part of the yard. Turns out it was a cat chasing a squirrel. There’s a woman down the street who has a number of cats and they roam the neighborhood. Most are pretty ordinary except one has three legs and one is as black as great coffee. It was this black one I saw giving its all to catch the squirrel and of course the immediate thought I had, which pertains to cats and business, was what is it going to do when it catches it? Continue reading
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