Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Up next in the Top 10 Things I learned in 2009: #6 Social Disruption – My generation is known as technology ‘Immigrants’… as opposed to our ‘Native’ kids. We’re learners; they’re naturals. In April, I started Tweeting. In July, I began blogging. Toss in Facebook, Linked In and a few others and – whew – [...]
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Tags: April, Disruption, facebook, generation, Immigrants, July, learners, many things, Native, native kids, Social, social disruption, social marketing, technology, Toss, Tweeting
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Continuing the countdown of the Top 10 things I learned this year: #7 Go For It – A few months ago I read where Seth Godin wanted to invite a select group of 10 small business owners to spend a day brainstorming. The cost would be travel to and lodging in New York City and [...]
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Tags: business, business case, case, charitable donation, cost, countdown, day, donation, e mail, group, guru, Marketing, New York City, Rock, select group, Seth Godin, small business owners, travel, year
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
More on the Top 10 things I learned in 2009: #8 Spin The Wheel – It’s been nearly three decades since Pat Sajak began hosting Wheel of Fortune. A big sports fan, I heard him interviewed on the Dan Patrick Show during the baseball playoffs. When the subject turned to compensation and Patrick cracked about [...]
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Tags: baseball, baseball playoffs, compensation, Dan Patrick Show, fan, Fortune, money, Pat, pat sajak, Patrick, Sajak, Spin, sports fan, subject, three decades, Vanna White, week, Wheel, wheel of fortune
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Top 10 Things I learned in 2009: #9 Uncalculated Risk – Just last week I heard this statistic: only 17 percent of small- and medium- size businesses have a written plan… and that includes scribbles on a napkin. Talk about walking in the dark without a flashlight. If you haven’t paused to write down your [...]
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Tags: financial planning, flashlight, lottery, medium, medium size businesses, napkin, peers, percent, plan, Risk, rocks, size, small, statistic, Uncalculated, uncalculated risk, walking in the dark, week
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Counting down the Top 10 Things I learned this year: #10 First Things First – During a coaching session one of my clients was describing the challenges he faces in his start-up company. Like many, he struggles balancing all the stuff on his plate. My response: “That’s why I’m eliminating things getting in the way [...]
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Tags: challenges, coaching, columnist, company, consulting contract, industry magazine, plate, position, relationship, response, session, session one, start up company, stuff, success, way, year
It’s All About Connections
Monday, December 21st, 2009Up next in the Top 10 Things I learned in 2009: #6 Social Disruption – My generation is known as technology ‘Immigrants’… as opposed to our ‘Native’ kids. We’re learners; they’re naturals. In April, I started Tweeting. In July, I began blogging. Toss in Facebook, Linked In and a few others and – whew – [...]
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Tags: April, Disruption, facebook, generation, Immigrants, July, learners, many things, Native, native kids, Social, social disruption, social marketing, technology, Toss, Tweeting