From the category archives:
You want this book: Escape from Cubicle Nation, by Pamela Slim. She’s been writing a great blog for several years, and now she’s put much of the soul of that blog into her new book, with the same name. You want it if you’re working for a company and thinking about going on your [...]
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I’ve posted before on this blog about The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s powerful book, written before the big downturn, which some say (he wouldn’t) predicted it.
With a beautifully written mix of history, stories, studies, and logic, Taleb shows how the big events are completely unpredictable. And that we kid ourselves, [...]
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We used to talk a lot about the “killer app” back in the early days of personal computing, late 1970s and early 1980s, when a killer application was something that would create a new market, or bring a technology into…
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Anita Campbell is giving away copies of my Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan book over at her Small Business Trends blog. She posted this offer last Friday for her birthday (nice touch) and offered five books to be given at random from…
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On Monday I posted some predictions from the World Future Society, what I consider to be an interesting list of believable possibilities for the next 25 years. Today I want to add another view. I’ve heard several interviews with Thomas…
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Many long years ago, during the last weeks of a two-year MBA program, I was in a class that ended up discussing what we had and hadn’t learned. Disappointments came up. I was an outsider, I was happy with having…
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The other day when I posted my accountability dip post, I received an email newsletter from The Oz Principle people, specifically Partners In Leadership® – The Accountability Training® Company. Of course this isn’t just coincidence. And, while I plead ignorance…
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Yes, you can. Maybe not all businesses. Maybe not any business. Some businesses, though, can start in three weeks. My first business started the day a former client called and asked my to do a market study in Venezuela. That…
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