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
Tag Archives: management
Mr. Fish
I’m pretty sure I’ve explained my theory that many of the really great food places in this country are not very fancy. Actually, my frie
nds would tell you I regularly use another term, ending in “hole”, to describe them. Sonny Bryan’s, Arthur Bryant’s, Dreamland – all great BBQ places, all decoratively challenged (I love euphemisms). Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, food, Helpful Hints
Thinking Personally
I spent yesterday at the OMMA Mobile conference. Very interesting although it kind of felt like everything old is new again in some ways. Much of what we’ve gone through in the development of the web is being repeated in mobile, including the reluctance of marketers to embrace a medium that is way more developed than most of them understand. Mobile devices (I don’t like to think of them as phones since that’s very limiting) are personal, PC‘s are not. There are several times as many mobile devices as there are phones and more and more of them have high speed data access and can run applications. There was a ton of great research presented and I’ll have more on that at some other time. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks
Consult Keith 